Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Goes Live

The data search and computation engine Wolfram Alpha has gone live. The web-based application, which is billed as a ‘computational knowledge engine’, went live for testing on Friday and was officially launched on Monday. “Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer,” Stephen Wolfram, the founder and chief executive of Wolfram Research, said in a statement. “I’m happy to say that we’ve successfully built a system that delivers knowledge from a simple input field, giving access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.”

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