WlframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine

[Ice House]

Just Wondering if anyone has heard of this before. My father just sent me the link and at first glance I thought that some here at the Tavern would find it interesting.

Stephen Wolfram-

Making the World's Knowledge Computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing

WolframAlpha

 

[Felnik]

This is great Its weird i was imagining this to exist and here it is, thank you.

 

[Thorz]

I used this all the time for my calculus class. It works so well and displays step by step on how to do a lot of problems.

 

[Pokey]

There is a really excellent talk on TED by the guy responsible for WolframAlpha. Check it out, you won't be disappointed!

http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html

Pokey

 

[benzyme]

great for common computational applications, not so great for chemistry nomenclature.
for instance, it may be able to calculate molarity of common reagents like acetic acid solutions, but not for α-Cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid solutions.