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-=JUDGE=-
05-18-2009, 12:05 PM
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Goals

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.

SuperApe
05-18-2009, 01:19 PM
In (loosely) related news, www.wolframsbeta.com is also up and running. 42

DeadMeatGF
05-18-2009, 03:27 PM
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
L:DL

UltraJounin
05-19-2009, 01:09 PM
L:DL

LOL same for me @ "Celebrity birthdays June 18 1978"

-=JUDGE=-
05-19-2009, 05:13 PM
Ya .. I got that a lot. Of course I was using it like google. If you use it right.. not like a search engine but more like a computational knowledge engine .. the results are quite cool!

Try something like ...

Earth Jupiter Saturn Pluto

As long as you use terms that it can compute.. it works good.

DeadMeatGF
05-19-2009, 05:22 PM
Ya .. I got that a lot. Of course I was using it like google. If you use it right.. not like a search engine but more like a computational knowledge engine .. the results are quite cool!

Try something like ...

Earth Jupiter Saturn Pluto

As long as you use terms that it can compute.. it works good.

But as it's supposed to be available to the masses, and understand plain English searches ...
I know it's only Alpha, but I don't think it's ready for public release yet - the bad press could easily kill it off before it even starts.

Angel_Mapper
05-19-2009, 05:26 PM
uranium fission

Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/nucene/u235chn.html
Fail.