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Founder compares his Wolfram-Alpha to Watson

January 26, 2011 by Stephen Baker
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Stephen Wolfram, founder of Mathematica computing software and the Wolfram-Alpha knowledge engine, takes a fascinating look at the future of search and knowledge--and where a computer like IBM's Watson fits in. It doesn't make sense to rehash his post. Better just to read it. The most interesting aspect to me is his thinking about the... [read more]

Quest for knowledge

April 22, 2010 by Teradata EMEA
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When I was growing up, my mother encouraged me to become a librarian. I think she plotted that career path for me as I spent vast amounts of time at our public library pawing my way through aisles of books in search of a suitable stack to take home. When use of the Internet exploded after 1990, I joined the swell of surfers seeking even... [read more]

What to store in our heads?

February 22, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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  I'll start with what sounds like a silly question: Which brain do you do most of your thinking with, the spongy one in your head or the electronic wonder at your fingertips? Which one stores more of your memories, and stitches together the webs of your friendships? Even a decade ago, the answer would have been obvious. We... [read more]

Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom

June 11, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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As is probably already apparent to regular readers of this blog, I take rather a visual approach to both understanding things and communicating them. Seldom will I leave a one-on-one meeting without having scrawled on a sheet of paper to explain my train of thought, or to ensure that I have properly understood what someone else has... [read more]