Word: wolfram
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...largest software company has called the project Kumo. It may change that name before the public sees it. Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) may have seemed like odd names for search engines, but those choices never seemed to affect their success. Another company recently launched a search product called Wolfram Alpha. At least in the case of this software, the inventor, Stephen Wolfram, put his name...
...Wolfram Alpha the newest rival to Google? More on this, after the jump...
...least according to John G. Ekizian, public relations consultant for Stephen Wolfram, an internet guru who dropped by Harvard Law School Tuesday to demonstrate his new product, Wolfram Alpha...
Tuesday, at the University's Berkman Center for Internet and Technology, Wolfram showed examples of possible questions and answers that the technology provides. Type in "Lexington, MA", and the product will generate population, weather, and information about nearby cities. Type in "life expectancy" of a particular age group and there will be graphs drawn to match your request. It's a "knowledge machine," according to Ekizian, and has already been called by one technology blog "really important and significant...
...Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and has already made his name in the techie world creating Mathematica, a computational program that is widely used in engineering, science, and math fields...