I ran across an interesting, very far-fetched-sounding article on
Digg today about a new product that Wolfram Mathematics is working on called Wolfram Alpha. It supposedly calculates (instead of looks up) the answers to questions, using built-in databases of information, equations for physics and math and engineering, etc. I'm interested to see what its full potential will end up being. Any thoughts?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-computes-answers-to-factual-questions-this-is-going-to-be-big/

that's a really interesting idea... I would really like to have a crack at it, to see if I can stump it.

If wolfram is working on it, it can't be *that* far fetched. I'm also excited to see how this comes out, although naming it Alpha (given that its a first version) confused me when I was reading about it on /.

All I can say is... AWESOME!

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