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Join us for a live webcast as we document our first attempt to go live with Wolfram|Alpha this...Join us for a live webcast as we document our first attempt to go live with Wolfram|Alpha this Friday, May 15. We will be webcasting our preparations starting at 7pm CDT (UTC -5). We’ll work through checklists, do a final test of our infrastructure---and then, if all goes well, within an hour or two we’ll have Wolfram|Alpha live on the public web for the first time.
After Friday evening, we expect to be continuing to test and resolve infrastructure issues throughout the weekend---and we’ll probably be webcasting intermittently during that time. If all goes well, we’ll then be able to declare Wolfram|Alpha officially launched on Monday, May 18.: Wolfram|Alpha event, 2009-05-15more
I have a link to Wolfram on my site since six months already! so u know Im a fan,its my birthday today and just did my first try out: damn, max.test load..ah well, i know it is a daunting task but im ver confident!.Btw, I wanna buy shares in Wolfram right now.http://koenski-beterweter.blogspot.com/
WA misses bilingual-wise with city names. Looking for Jakobstad (Finland) returns Pietarsaari (fin) even though Jakobstad is the international name because a majority of ppl in Jakobstad are swedishspeaking. A mathematical fact WA misses
Really exciting. Especially the openness and easy communication depicted in the live video. The "sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is humorous and just a little scary.
This surely marks the transformation from the Information Age to the Knowlege Age. Wolfram will in time be recognised as important as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and I am proud he is also a Brit, and from my home town of Oxford!
Here are queries that I've tried:
http://www.danielbigham.ca/wolfram.htm
Overall I'm very impressed! Obviously, as has been said, this is a long term project and I'm sure the language parsing of the system will be vastly improved over a few years.
Hmmm... the engine gives info. about "Maple Creek, Saskatchewan" with a population of just over 2,000 but it doesn't know about Markham, Ontario which has over 1/4 MILLION people... Looks like a number of holes in the data still!
I used it for my Birthday-Date and it feeled like i touched the future. This is a first small step, that computers can interact with human in a more personal way. i wish you all guys the best for the future. I feel that this is something really big, congratulations from a very impressed guy.
dumb...drop the pretense of 'going live' on Monday...you ARE live! It's great that you're learning about how to serve a googolplex of qps. Learn from this: under-promise and over-deliver. Use invites or something to build a user-base gradually.
Oh,Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! It's the best team I have ever seen! The team of Wolfram Alpha!!! One day,I hope I could be the one who are like you! Clever and ... yea! just one word ... Cool Right?! LOL
Interesting idea...stringing out the launch over the weekend. This should let you work out the inevitable glitches under real-time conditions. Geekdom also appreciates listening in on the technical issues....
doesn't do well on 'Wales' or 'Wales population'. I want the country, not the cities. 'Cymru' didn't cut it either (was asking a lot though, with cymru). 'Welsh' is OK.
I have graet admiration for this immense enterprise which I thought was impossible. Feel like Lalande - the French atronomer - confronted with the Montgolfiers-balloon flight in 1783 which he had prdedicted as totally impossible in 1782.
Jacob Orlebeke
congratulations, you have made a very good job so far. its unbelivable what you have done.
you did what is the dream of human mandkind, you made it possible to access the combinated knowlegde of the internet
thats pretty cool ;-)
good to see a search engine that will give us facts/answers to our questions instead of other search engines giving us countless recomended pages by picking out key words and then still hunting for an answer that could still be the wrong info/answer.
good luck.
Surely this NORAD-style setting won't be easily forgotten. I wish Google had done some G-live day, to honour us with lots of screens and ballistic query listings from all around the world ... Plus a bald, shy, scientist unveiling his creature to the world: "Behold the Wolfram" ... "It's alive!!!"
In "Tips for good results", Searching for "Only what is known to Wolfram|Alpha" is suggested. Shouldn't this, if it is a computational system, use data sets to "compute" for unknown information?
Pharos used to worship Mathimatics and worshiped Ra. Now we use Solar POWER and the internet is finally mathematically based - Bravo Mathimatica. It only took 10,000 years !!!