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Computers could create new knowledge for us, Conrad Wolfram says

May 13, 2011 in Features

ConradWolframTD11For the co-founder of the technical innovation company Wolfram Research, the semantic web is not enough.

According to Conrad Wolfram, we are working towards something more – making the web computable so computers can create new knowledge for us.

NMM caught up with the top mathematician and digital visionary in the lead-up to his talk at the Thinking Digital Conference.

So what does he see as the future for the web?

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Search semantically with Wolfram Alpha

November 25, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized

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One example of what computers can do with data they understand is an ‘answer engine’ called Wolfram Alpha.

What’s special about Wolfram Alpha is that it solves factual queries directly instead of offering a page with potential sources for the answer as normal search engines do.

Wolfram Alpha computes the answer from structured data and provides answers and relevant visualisations from a core knowledge base of curated, structured data.

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What does the future hold for the 20-year-old Web?

November 25, 2010 in Features

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After making it through its teenage years, the World Wide Web is getting ready for the huge task of organising all of its information.

Last Monday, to mark the 20th birthday of his creation, Tim Berners-Lee published an article in the Scientific American.

“The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending”, Berners-Lee opened.

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iGlue set to "wikify the web"

June 17, 2010 in News Roundup

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Launched at a TechCrunch event in London April this year, the semantic web software iGlue is set out to make sense of the information overload, describing itself as “the superglue of the Net”.

iGlue, seeks to enhance the user experience on the web – helping people to understand all the information out there but also helping the internet “understand us and adapt to us”.

According to the technology blog TechCrunch, iGlue “creates an additional information layer over web pages by using natural language technology to understand its content.”

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