Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram
UPDATE: Video removed as embedding was later disabled. Watch the full screencast direct from Wolfram.
Wow! This is just stunning. Wolfram|Alpha, described as a computational knowledge engine can take almost any question or input you can throw at it and produce real, usable data. Amongst the examples shown we see everything from…
LDL 150 smoker male age 40
giving you the relevent statistics from a recent cholesteol study, right the way through to…
500bp upstream of gene FASTKD2
providing genomic details.
Part 2 is just as stunning, with examples financial planing, computational fluid dynamics, music and mathematical sequences. This is sure to change the search engine game when it is released, especially for those of us who like the, comparatively simple, calculation abilities already built into Google.
