

But if you want to make a graph of quantities or compare data from another source, there are nagging problems, like the assumptions upon which these data were based,” said Grey. WolframAlpha is the worlds definitive source for expert, computable knowledge across thousands of domains. “In order to make data computable, the tricky part is that there’s a lot of information - lots of collections of data where you can get a raw dump. To that end, Wolfram works with many contributors - Mathematica users and experts in their fields - who identify usable, publicly available data sets and work to make it digestible to Alpha. “Many people over the weekend went looking for sports statistics, for example,” he said - an area that Wolfram hasn’t gotten to yet, but will. Wolfram Cloud Integrated Access to Computational Intelligence The Wolfram Cloud combines a state-of-the-art notebook interface with the world's most productive programming languagescalable for programs from tiny to huge, with immediate access to a vast depth of built-in algorithms and knowledge. Wolfram plans to add additional data to search, as well. There are three methods to activate Mathematica: online activation, manual activation, and connecting to a license server running an appropriate version of MathLM. Grey says that going forward, Wolfram will continuously improve the Alpha engine to better understand what people are asking it. That was one of the goals behind Wolfram’s recent private beta test and last weekend’s final shakedown - to make sure that Alpha could interpret many of the queries that it was getting.
