Users submit queries and computation requests via a text field. Additional data is gathered from both academic and commercial websites such as the CIA's The World Factbook, the United States Geological Survey, a Cornell University Library publication called All About Birds, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Dow Jones, the Catalogue of Life, CrunchBase, Best Buy, and the FAA. WolframAlpha was released on May 18, 2009, and is based on Wolfram's earlier product Wolfram Mathematica, a computational platform for calculation, visualization, and statistics capabilities. It answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced data.
r əm-/ WUULf-rəm-) is a computational knowledge engine and answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. While some staff are recovering from carpal tunnel, we have returned to the normal styling for all results.May 18, 2009 13 years ago ( ) (official launch) Please share your favorites in the comments.ĪpUpdate: We hope you enjoyed the handwritten Wolfram|Alpha results on April Fools’ Day. We hope you enjoy the Wolfram|Alpha Handwritten Knowledge Engine.
WOLFRAMALPHA XOM VERIFICATION
Put your mind at ease with a handwritten verification of some important information: Go meta, and get handwritten knowledge about the word handwriting: But here are some other ideas to get you going. So what will you compute? I definitely cannot recommend running your homework through Wolfram|Alpha, printing out the handwritten results, and trying to pass them as your own. A few of the physicists already have writer’s cramp, and the pop culture researchers might be next. Ask a question, and your machine-computed results will be transcribed and illustrated by a real live human being. The retreat just wrapped, and the Wolfram|Alpha Handwritten Knowledge Engine is ready to go. Human Resources began recruiting in earnest (by the way, we’re hiring), as well as organizing a Corporate Penmanship Retreat. We knew we’d need a goodly number of contributors, as well as some sort of training component-consistency is important, after all. You remember handwriting, right? The thing you used to do with a pen, to write letters and checks? Checks, well, they were these pieces of paper that represented… you know what, I should get back to the story. We narrowed it down to “ putting a bird on it” versus a handwritten interface, results pages and all. We began to imagine ways to add that handmade, personal flair to Wolfram|Alpha results. The answer to every query, question, and computation is custom-generated, drawing upon trillions of pieces of built-in knowledge. Luckily, we had a head start: Wolfram|Alpha already computes its answers just for you. But making gifts by hand for over 2.2 billion people? It was a daunting challenge. One of those “just because” things to spread a bit of happiness around the world.Ĭonventional wisdom holds that the best gifts are handmade. We had a thought not long ago that it would be nice to get you (the internet) a gift. You might be wondering where this idea came from. Today, we’re proud to unveil the Wolfram|Alpha Handwritten Knowledge Engine, a new, more personal way of delivering computed answers.