wolframalpha

Just thought you would like to see this.

the fisch

Where will it end?

And it is free--someone pays but I don't know who???

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

Here is a direct link:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

This has been around for a couple of years now, but it's not super useful yet (certain searches work great, but if you think up some on your own, the results are likely to be pretty crappy). I would think in terms of paying, I doubt they have much of a business plan for it yet. Wolfram Research makes mathematical software (primarily Mathematica, which is pretty cool), so this is a side project for them.

I could see it being extremely useful someday, but it's going to take a lot more AI on the input to get it to that point.

David,

As always, thanks for your insight. I was impressed by their examples but I suppose they used appropriate search parameters. That might always be a limitation.

I have not tried any camera data, research, lenses etc.

But better than when I went to school...!!!

the fisch

I hope it's more practical than 'new kind o science' was!

Stephen Wolfram just recently spoke at TED (which I'd hope most of us are familiar with) and directly referenced the purpose of WolframAlpha. He's hoping to use it to compute the unifying theory.. It's worth your time.