Whether it’s Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, or A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram is a man of big ideas. And this Thursday, September 17, at 2pm U.S. CDT, he will be sharing some of his thoughts, and taking your questions during a live webcast on justin.tv.
If you have a question you’d like to ask Stephen, please send it as a comment to this blog post or tweet to @Wolfram_Alpha. We’ll also be taking questions live on the justin.tv chat during the webcast.
Thanks again for all of your interest and support. We look forward to sharing this live webcast with you.
when will be available Spanish wolfram?
Thanks
Yes, in spanish please
I know there are volunteer curator opportunities, but are you taking offers for volunteer testing yet? If not, any idea when that might happen?
Which current mathematicians and/or scientist do you find to be the most thought provoking or influential?
As this webcast will be awaited in many countries and people will not be sure of the time in their country I suggest you display a countdown time.
Can we get a sneak peek or vague description of any new marvels being marvels for Mathematica 8?
What is the purpose of the Alpha API for Mathematica and when will it be made available?
What kind of work is being done on improving Wolfram|Alpha’s natural language input? Often times I’ll enter something when I’m trying to do some math or figure out some distance or something, and W|A just doesn’t understand it and I have to try to break it down into parts and try to get an answer. Other times I get just what I expected. I was just wondering what kinds of areas are being worked on to improve that aspect, and also, another little question, how has the usage and load been on W|A and what are some of the most common kinds of things people input?
Thanks!
Do you have plans for better exposing the sources and lineage of the information you provide? Several people have asked similar questions over time, and I guess I’m still waiting for a satisfying answer.
If the answer remains “no” or “not really”, could you talk about why not? W|A is so interesting and exciting, and at the same time you serve me up information with no context that I’m just supposed to accept as correct. To me, that renders W|A fairly unusable for purposes outside of numeric computation. Wikipedia gives me the population of New York City with information about who took the measurement and when. W|A just gives me a number, which is completely meaningless without that metadata.
Thank you.
I have had similar concerns. Thanks for bringing it up Sharon
Stephen:
Are there any specific efforts to ‘brand’ or ‘position’ the ‘computable knowledge’ from W|A as important to government, business and NGO’s as humankind wrestles with daunting challenges in human services, the economy and the environment? In an era of ‘the intern found the answer on Google,’ is the discussion of the road forward for W|A increasingly a discussion of how the broader human community re-learns the ability for a rigorous synthesis of curated data to achieve insights and understanding?
Is there some portion of this perspective behind the current and future plans/realization of W|A? If so, how can the community of those who value W|A best support helping the press and the lay community in seeing crisp differentiation between the ‘fabulous monetized search of Google and Bing’ versus the rather different possibilities achievable from W|A?
Or do I misunderstand the mission here?
Kindest regards,
John
What is being done to accept queries that link information across domains? How come I still can’t take one result of a query and apply it to a different query such as (Birth date of (Oldest US president (US president born in New York))). I though that was the whole point of Wolfram Alpha (nesting).
Can you discuss some of the under the hood features of Wolfram Alpha that relate to the implimentation of NKS? What role do cellular automata play in its implimentation if any? Thanks.
Hi Stephen,
In the world where Goolge is criticized for omitting some search results in China to amuse Chinese government, how is WolframAlpha planning to avoid this as W|A displays only curated data. Choosing specific sources only for acquiring data could be a big problem in the future, as you grow. How are you planning to tackle this ? How can you explain that W|A is fair to all resources? Thank you.
Do the cells in NKS always exist as entities in a specific location and time? I’m interested in what makes up space and time (presumably abstract elements which do not themselves exist in a particular time or space, such as “5″ or the concept of a ratio). I don’t see how cellular automata could help in that pursuit if the cells are described in terms of what might be called “pre-existing” space and time, but perhaps I’m simply underestimating the generality of NKS concepts (I have not yet read the full book).
Will be we seeing a wolframalpha, which does not only parse expressions and compute them but actually use the data we get from the output to compute something else? In an algorithmic way i mean
when will be available API for developers?
What about launching a web site of this size would you say surprised you the most now that Alpha has been online for some time?
Will WolframAlpha go ambient, i.e be incorporated in Gadgets and forage for data that way? Using pc to feed in data like temperature, earthquake shakes etc.?
Are you into W. Brian Arthur’s “Nature of Technology” as technology being evolutionary, path-dependent, but very different from biological nature?
Thanks WA! The webcast was excellent!
Yes!!!, p-forms, exterior derivative d, Hodge star*, Wedge product ^, maps, Interior product and Lie derivative is
a part of System of Physical Quantities.
I developed a program for automatic solution of physical problems.
Now the squeak includes know-how of the system of physical quantities.
With proper software architecture, this approach can be used
to address the institute and in the perspective of engineering research
tasks.
Me it would be desirable through the electronic mail to discuss the results of my work with you or your assistant. So I count that these results they could be useful for http://www.wolframalpha.com/
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taking inverse laplace transform of a function having complex poles, mathematica gives the answer as complex form. how can i transform that in trigonometric form? for example, inverse laplace transform of (25 s + 75)/(s^2 + 6 s + 13) gives the answer 25/2 E^((-3 - 2 I) t) (1 + E^(4 I t)). i need to know how to convert that complex form into trigometric form in mathematica.
thanks in advance.
Is it possible to solve chemical reaction in this web page?
Is it possible to calculate how many apples you can put in one bucket of 10 liters?
Nice to meet you Wolfram in Seoul. and your signature on my post at World Knowledge Forum.
i would like to know the stock market of milling wheat price ,is it posible to lead me?