Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/

This could be interesting - from the guy who created Mathematica - a plain language factual question answering system.

"It's going to be a website: www.wolframalpha.com. With one simple input field that gives access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.

We're all working very hard right now to get Wolfram|Alpha ready to go live.

I think it's going to be pretty exciting. A new paradigm for using computers and the web.

That almost gets us to what people thought computers would be able to do 50 years ago!"

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Human WebGreeter Fails Turing Test

http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/199

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Millennium Development Goals - 2008 Progress Chart

Neat graphic of where we are against the Millennium Development Goals - click image for link to original PDF

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The Mom Song

Never seen this before, but it had the family in stitches.

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Creating a MegaBrain with TheBrain Mindmaps

http://blog.thebrain.com/megabrain/

I have Kurzweil's TheBrain on my laptop and have used it a bit, but not this extent!

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Avatars That Are Harmonizing Musical Band Instruments

Bandbots - Second Life Musical Avatars from Chantal Harvey on Vimeo.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/02/bandbots.html

Love it - avatars shaped like musical instruments that make music and harmonise.

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Coca Cola Avatars in the real world

Great Super-Bowl ad from Coca-Cola

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