Wolfram Alpha Turns 2: 'People Just Need What We Are Doing'

Ryan Singel:

Steven Wolfram, the man behind computing-application Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, has a short attention span that's married to a long-term outlook.

Wolfram Alpha is an online service that computes the answers to queries (e.g., age pyramid for the Philippines or glycogen degradation pathway rather than searching for those terms showing up on webpages.

When asked what his favorite query is, the particle physicist and MacArthur "genius" award recipient says he's enamored that Wolfram Alpha can tell you about the plane you just saw flying over your town -- in his case "flights visible from Concord, Massachusetts."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 31, 2011 1:07 AM
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