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- Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith
- Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Wolfram Alpha releases major update; keeps refining
- Wolfram/Alpha, the service that's less of a Google-like search engine and more of a "computational knowledge engine" of information on the Internet, has undergone a major update, with more planned for the future. These updates, though, don't come in the form of a face lift or a new user interface....
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Google unleashes Google Squared
- A new labs product Google has been working on called Google Squared was just launched -- it is basically a different way of displaying results to a query. Searching for US Presidents gives you a nicely formatted grid (or "square") with the information you need. Instead...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Google vs. Wolfram Alpha
- Find out which search/computational engine is the best, or if they even compare at all.
- Videos 2009-05-26
- Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1
- Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1Great for science usebut no good as an internet street map.Never intended to be a Google killerIt was never meant to be a Google killer - and only foolish media that depicted it as one. Clearly it is not a search engine, but what it...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?
- Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- Wolfram Alpha: First hands-on
- CNET's Rafe Needleman gets a look at the eagerly-anticipated new computational search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Is it a Google killer? No, but it has the potential to change the way we view at data on the Web.
- Videos 2009-05-15
- How will Google monetize the "meaning" of a search?
- I went to Google's Searchology event Tuesday morning, which is where it unveils it's latest search technologies. This year, there was a lot said about trying to understand the meaning of user queries, which is a semantic analysis. Udi Manber, vice president of core search, said it...
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics
- Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analyticsHe deserves to do well.Hopefully he can take over Microsoft's little share of the search market.RE: Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analyticsHi there,"Algorithms: Wolfram/Alpha uses a bevy of algorithms including 5 million to 6 million of mathematical code." should probably be"Algorithms: Wolfram/Alpha uses a bevy...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics
- Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'
- Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps a better mousetrap to actually live up to the billing. Techmeme is a flutter...
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
- I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputerConsumerisation=toys not computing"On StorageMojo I've often addressed the consumerization of IT. The PS3 represents the consumerization of supercomputing. That will benefit us all."I'd change the last sentance to "That COULD benefit us all."But will it? Reading through a few channel 9 blogs a couple of days...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- ComScore: Baidu beats Microsoft properties in worldwide search
- Using its new qSearch 2.0 method of computation, ComScore has released its worldwide search-activity stats for August. Microsoft is No. 4 in the latest standings. (Just in case you were confused, as I was: This is not the Comscore Media Metrix (audience-measurement) Web traffic data. It seems...
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- I'm getting separated from Google
- I'm getting separated from GoogleYou know....You can ask the same thing about Microsoft Windows can't you....Just thought I'd interject that into your anti-google piece.Google used Microsoft's forumlaGoogle mirrored Microsoft's formula for success: race to the front with some slick features and an attractive package. Get people entrenched in your...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- Searching through biological images
- Researchers at the Arizona State University ASU are working on software tools to analyze databases of biological images. One of these projects is using machine learning technology to compare the expression patterns captured in the images. So far, the software was used to explore a database of embryonic fruit flies...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- CognitionSearch seeks more precise results
- Cognition Technologies entered the search engine arena with CognitionSearch, which applies linguistic analysis of queries and documents to render more precise results than the popular search engines for English language queries. Currently, CognitionSearch is technology demonstration, focused on three discrete content categories--medicine, politics and legal. The company is also working...
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Forecasting the next 50 years in science
- In the recent issue of the New Scientist, 70 very smart people predict the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the next 50 years. The topics range from the evolution of consciousness and the universal theory of everything to implantable, organo-electrical brain-machine interfaces and the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In the computing...
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
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