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Benny
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #25 on: May 30th, 2009, 10:27am » |
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Yes. The computer on Star Trek TV series fascinated me as I was growing up ... I liked Spock for his logical and mathematical mind, and I liked the women on these shows, in particular the Green alien woman:
And how the crew of the Enterprise could just bark out a question and get a definitive answer right away.
Wasn't it cool?
Did they have the Internet on Star Trek?
We may be close to the kind of computational technology of Star Trek: Wolfram|Alpha
http://www96.wolframalpha.com/
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Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing
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We should not expect it to replace Google or any other search engine but rather, let it become a part of your research tool repertoire.
What it is intended to do is to take any phrase or question and figure out the best answer it can for you.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #26 on: May 31st, 2009, 2:59pm » |
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I'm sharing with this community an article on Wolfram|Alpha:
Wolfram Alpha versus Twitter
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