On the other hand,
Doug Lenat, Cyc architect, after personal preview with wolfram hints"
that "" collaboration... [would] involve... partial alignment of Cyc's
ontology with [Wolfram] Alpha terms"
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/blogs-i-was-positively-impressed-wolfram-alpha.html#comment-3
and Nova Spivack, Twine.com architect, also met with Wolfram , suggests
that it will be possible to builid an rdf/owlsparql interface on a
wolfram alpha api
http://www.twine.com/item/122mz8lz9-4c/wolfram-alpha-is-coming-and-it-could-be-as-important-as-google
Still Wolfram's private, 'hand crafted and curated' index' of computable
facts sounds a bit like the Prime Radiant designed by Hari Seldon in
Asimov's epic: Foundation ( 1951) a system for or storing
psychohistorical equations and visualizing humanities future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)#The_Prime_Radiant
P Kishor wrote:
"Wolfram says that trillions of pieces of data were selected and
managed by a team of experts at Wolfram Research, and that these
experts also tweak the information to ensure that it can be read and
displayed by the system. He says the system has become proficient at
eliminating "linguistic fluff," or words that are unnecessary for the
location and computation of relevant data. This statement disappointed
Boris Katz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is head
of the Start natural language processing project. "I believe [Wolfram]
is misguided in treating language as a nuisance instead of trying to
understand the way it organizes concepts into structures that require
understanding and harnessing," Katz says."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8026331.stm
Imagine that... trillions! Katz, by the way, is the creator of
start.csail.mit.edu that I linked to earlier.
In other news, ZDNet reported that Strunk and White released a beta
version of their highly popular guide to arguably better writing and
Eric Raymond was seen sellling t-shirts hawking his "how to ask smart
questions that answer themselves," both, no doubt, fueled by the rush
of all these new Google-killers!
Of course, my mom, who has still never used a computer in her life, is
happy she doesn’t have to deal with nuggets like GDP of France and
demography of Lexington.
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