Wolfram Alpha Launches

The long awaited and highly anticipated search engine rival to Google has launched. Alpha Wolfram makes systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. Using complex mathematical and computational coding, Wolfram Alpha brings complex thinking to the human level, expressed using plain English.

Wolfram|Alpha boasts 10 trillion pieces of data with 50,000 types of models and algorithms used in combination with linguistic capabilities. The model of Wolfram is built around Mathematica which was 20 years in the making at Wolfram Research. The Wolfram system runs on supercomputer class compute clusters running at an amazing speed and capable of analysing request in micro seconds.

We have already tested the system and been very impressed with the results. Using a simple request such as:

How many kg in a stone?

Wolfram Alpha was able to interpret our English semantic sentence into a mathematical formula and present the result:

6.35kg

The search engine (whoops, computational knowledge engine) also went one step further by showing us:

Additional conversions
Comparison as mass
Corresponding quantities

The computational knowledge engine is capable of performing analysis and computation in any of the following areas:

Statistics & Data Analysis
Data Analysis, Regression, Statistical Distributions, Probability..

Physics
Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, Optics, Relativity, Nuclear Physics, Quantum Physics, Particle Physics, Statistical Physics, Astrophysics, Physical Constants..

Chemistry
Elements, Compounds, Ions, Quantities, Solutions, Chemical Thermodynamics..

Materials
Alloys, Minerals, Plastics, Woods, Bulk Materials..

Engineering
Acoustics, Aeronautics, Electric Circuits, Fluid Mechanics, Steam Tables, Structures..

Astronomy
Star Charts, Planets, Moons, Minor Planets, Comets, Eclipses, Stars, Galaxies, Astrophysics..

Earth Sciences
Geology, Geodesy, Earthquakes, Tide Data, Standard Atmosphere..

Life Sciences
Animals & Plants, Dinosaurs, DNA Sequence Lookup, Genes, SNPs, Proteins..

Technological World
Communications, Satellites, Space Probes..

Transportation
Aircraft, Airports, Bridges, Tunnels..

Computational Sciences
Cellular Automata, Fractals, Functional Programming..

Web & Computer Systems
Website Data, IP Lookup, Data Transfer, Port Numbering, String Processing, Hashing, Unicode Lookup..

Units & Measures
Conversions, Calculations, Comparisons, Dimensional Analysis, Industrial Measures, Batteries, Bulk Materials, Paint..

Money & Finance
Stock Data, Indices, Mutual Funds, Mortgages, Present Value, Currency Conversion, Bonds, Derivatives Valuation, Wages, Sales Tax..

Wolfram is a free service for personal and non-commercial use. Larger scale commercial use will be available in the future under a subscriptions system.

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