Following Bloomberg's recent addition of bitcoin to its trading terminals in late April, and its inclusion on
computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, Yahoo! Finance has followed suit and now displays the BTC / USD price along with its many other listed fiat currencies.
Book off an hour or so at 3 p.m. ET this coming Tuesday, April 28, to join, via webcast, the «sneak preview» of the grandly named Wolfram / Alpha Computational
Knowledge Engine at Harvard's Berkman Center.
Wolfram Alpha, for those not aware, is a web - based computational
knowledge engine from the makers of Mathematica.
New York - based Yext, a self - styled «
knowledge engine» that helps businesses keep their listings on services like Yelp, Google Maps, and Apple's Siri up - to - date, has filed for an IPO.
Their knowledge engine platform lets business manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100 services including the kingpins of search noted above.
Then
this knowledge engine would use best practices, and all the knowledge in the world to give physicians some sort of standardized guidance.
Farhad Manjoo in Slate on his experience with Wolfram Alpha, the «
knowledge engine» designed to beat Google at its own game
I asked Stephan, «What do you think is the most important skill for students to learn, given their access to
a knowledge engine?»
He was showing me the remarkable capabilities of this «
knowledge engine,» which can instantly produce answers (and very often all of the steps) to traditional assignments, such as how to balance a chemical equation or to solve a math problem (even word problems).
In September 2015, the Knight Foundation awarded Wikimedia a $ 250,000 grant from for work to «advance new models for finding information by supporting stage one development of
the Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia, a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy public information on the internet,» according to a document uploaded by Wikimedia.
The existence of
the Knowledge Engine, now known as «Wikimedia Discovery,» was news to the Wikipedia editors» community, who claimed the project's covert nature and very existence are fundamentally at odds with Wikimedia's transparent ethos.
Wolfram Alpha, as you may know, is a «computational
knowledge engine.»
Our goal is to accept completely free - form input, and to serve as
a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.
You may already know about Wolfram Alpha, which calls itself the «computational
knowledge engine.»
Wolfram Alpha is a «computational
knowledge engine».
WolframAlpha Blog — Wolfram Alpha Gets a Green Thumb with Plant Data — The «computational
knowledge engine» ingests data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and stands ready to offer it up to us gardeners, now that spring is well and truly sprung (in some of the land, at least).
WolframAlpha is perhaps the extreme example of this, positioning itself as a «computational
knowledge engine.»
Google is all about showing off
their knowledge engines, and for a while Google Now has been a big part of that experience.