The Knowledge Engine

We all know search engines, we have even started to grasp "help engines" but what is a knowledge engine?

The concept has been developed by Stephan Wolfram who describes it as a computational knowledge engine. Wolfram was the creator of Mathematica: Mathematica provides you with the world's largest collection of algorithms in a single system--each able to operate across the widest applicable scope of numeric, symbolic, or graphical input.(Wolfram Reasearch 2009). Watch it in action here.

So what does a computational knowledge engine do? Wolfram explains here.





Wolfram Alpha screenshots here and is expected to go live sometime in May 2009. Especially checkout the video on the building of the datacentre.. it really appeals to the nerd in me :)