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Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine
"In a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a "computational knowledge engine" for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you.
It doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn't simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example.
Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions -- like questions that have factual answers such as "What country is Timbuktu in?" or "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?" or "What is the average rainfall in Seattle this month?," "What is the 300th digit of Pi?," "where is the ISS?" or "When was GOOG worth more than $300?""
Roberto Saccon on Web Technologies: More on the new syntax engine for bespin
"I am very excited about integrating the engine with Malte Ubi's work: offloading the engine to webworkers / gears for async background syntax analysis and merging it with the upcoming thunderhead editor component, which is better optimized for calling the syntax engine only when really necessary. Right now I am messing with caching (otherwise the parser would block the UI, arrghh !!!), I try to detect whether calling the syntax engine is necessary, if not I provide cached results if available."
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