Thursday, May 14, 2009

Wolfram Alpha

A new Search Engine is going to launch , somewhere in May 2009 , introduced on March 5, 2009. It is based on mathmatical algorithm s and heuristics. This search engine will give you the right answer for a qustion not a amount of pages which contains single words or combinaitons of words.
Before this itwas realised that Google is failed to respond the factual questions and to solve the problem, developer of "Mathmatica" and "NKS" Ed Tech's Scientist Stephen Wolfram stands up on March 5, 2009 with new search engine "Wolfram Alpha" and going to be launched in May 2009.
In order to provide the answers of factual qustions they tried to implement methods and models. algorithms and explicity curate all data to make it computable, e.g. if any user want to know the number of neutrons in helium atom , he will get the exact answer in natural language.
As per the version of its creators, this is a system that computes the answers to the questions by using the buil in models of field of knowledge, compelte with data and algorithm , which represents real knowledge.
In simpler term we can say that this could be a global store of information that understand and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.
"With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything, as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could arise from simple rules," Stephen wrote in a blog posting.
Wolfram explained that, with a mixture of Mathematica and NKS automation, and expert human help, he has been able to create a system that "knows a lot, and can figure a lot out".
He added that thanks to "algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and some serious theoretical breakthroughs", the system also understands natural human language when used to ask it questions.
Wolfram Alpha is due for launch in May, and will be a simple web site with a single input field.
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Charu,
We never met, but you impressed me a lot by posting valuable information.Wish you a very best success in your professional career.Good efforts you have made to creat blogs
Geeta Gadhavi
HoD, Dept. Library & Information Science
Guj. Uni.
Ahmedabad