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Wolfram Alpha at the OECD World Forum

November 5, 2009 —
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We’ve just returned from our visit to Busan, Korea for the 3rd Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy. We had the pleasure of joining some 1500 people from over 130 countries to discuss this year’s theme, “Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life.” Our visit was quite productive, with many interesting discussions with people from around the world on statistics, Wolfram|Alpha, and Mathematica. We are honored that our booth at the Forum’s International Exhibition received a Visitors’ Choice Award based on visitors’ and exhibitors’ votes.

The Wolfram|Alpha booth at the OECD World Forum

Wolfram Alpha LLC’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything; and democratize access to knowledge. The Forum provided an opportunity to engage in very interesting conversations with people and organizations from many developing and developed countries who have traditionally struggled with capturing, managing, and most importantly disseminating accurate statistical information to their different stakeholders. We had discussions with representatives of some of the organizations present—including the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Korea National Statistical Office, World Database of Happiness, UNICEF Childinfo, World Health Organization, and Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Wolfram|Alpha booth recieves a Visitor's Choice Award

We hope to continue making connections with organizations worldwide to utilize the power of Wolfram|Alpha toward standardization of and universal access to information for their stakeholders.

3 Comments

hello everybody,
i’ll give my best for that the information is really free…. i know an ugly old hacker ethic …

but wolfram alpha is not dynamic enough… had you tried Semantic web ala bing i’ve written an proof concept for my final exam in education… google knows the keys i only say there awsome translation technologie 😉

Posted by thE_iNviNciblE November 5, 2009 at 9:57 pm

You are doing the right thing ! Slowly build it, research and information , marketing and then launch.

really looking forward to see this monster project take its final form

Posted by trappevask November 11, 2009 at 12:21 pm

really looking forward to see this monster project take its final form
🙂

Posted by JON November 12, 2009 at 3:50 am