Expert Knowledge Accessible to Anyone ?

People around Stephen Wolfram, the British Mathematican known for his famous software tool Mathematica, showed off a program taking Google a step further. The software aims to answer questions directly, the one "how many dwarfs surrounded snowy white" should give the answer 7, rather than a list of URL's like the usual search engines provide.

Even more complex questions, going beyond simple facts, should be in reach of the software, like a country GDP, the plot of a mathematical function, or the number of hairs still standing on my head. More about the program called "Wolfram Alpha" here.

If this software will fulfill even some of its promises, expect recruiting blogs and community sites to rave, contemplate and go bonkers about its implications for research - including this blog. Only I won't go on predicting the doom of Executive Search though.

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Comments

[Catalin Acatrinei]

Niceeee! Imagine this coupled with Google voice search ;-)