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WolframAlpha - Answer Engine

Thanks to Craig Miller of Miller Ventures for sending me this link. I've also included a link to Wikipedia to show you what it has to say about this. The concept of Answer Engines is worth reading about when you get to Wikipedia. Watch the 13 minute Preview first (you’ll need your speakers on for the narrative:)

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

Here's the actual site:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha

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Permalink Reply by Todd Thurston on May 25, 2010 at 1:12pm

I have read a bit about it in wired – here is a link to all of their stuff about it:

http://www.wired.com/search?query=wolfram&siteAlias=all&x=0...

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Permalink Reply by Don Bolen on May 25, 2010 at 1:46pm

And here's a TED Video where Stephen Wolfram talks about his "computation" engine - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theor...

Some month's ago there was a touch of whimsy in Wolfram Alpha, via Easter Eggs. You could enter 42 and one response was the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, from Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now, if you type in "what is the answer to life?" you'll get 42. Here's a link to some W_A Easter Egg

One Twitter wag refers to W_A as the homework machine. Good stuff here.