The guys at Wolfram|Alpha have been working hard to bring you the best computational knowledge engine available out there, and for free. Even though Wolfram|Alpha is already a most powerful tool, developers have been working to improve it even further and have brought a full pack of entirely new and improved features before the year-end.
This new features cover all available categories, from mathematics and computation to science and culture. Comparing house prices in your area, reading available crime statistics from FBI, exploring a vast information about music, and check on military information, are just a few of the new planned features before the year-end.
Excitement is building as we count down to our first-ever
Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day, a live interactive web event starting
at noon CDT on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.
This event is dedicated to showing how Wolfram|Alpha, a
groundbreaking free website, is a powerful new discovery and
learning tool for students, parents, and educators.
We are proud to announce today some of the highlights we have
planned for Homework Day, including:
* Several interactive segments where Stephen Wolfram and the
Wolfram|Alpha Team help you tackle tough homework problems
* Step-by-step tutorials for educators by educators demonstrating
how to integrate Wolfram|Alpha into the classroom
* Vibrant panel discussions about Wolfram|Alpha and the future of
education
* And lots more
More details about Homework Day and how you can participate are
available on the Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day home page:
http://homeworkday.com
We hope you will check out the site and save the date for
Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.
Ever heard of Wolfram|Alpha?
Released on May 15, 2009, Wolfram|Alpha is a recent answer engine developed by the Wolfram Research. It is an online service that aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone by computing the answer from structured data.
We aim to (…) make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.
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our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.
At a first glance, Wolfram Alpha seems a very useful and an extraordinary project. For example, if you type “Ohm Law”, it immediately shows you the equation and it’s meaning, as well as a converter/calculator. If you type the name of a city, it shows you a map and a bunch of statistic and values (population, weather…) related to that same city.
It really is something to keep an eye on and take a look at. Try typing a domain name, a celebrity name, a date, a song,…anything.
It seems a fantastic project and I’m hoping that Wolfram Research goals will be successfully accomplished, since that means everyone wins…well almost everyone.
It’s already in 2010, that Google will be releasing it’s new OS: Google Chrome. The announce was made yesterday (07/07/09) at the Official Google Blog.
So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
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Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.
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The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
Initially developed for military purposes, the Peregrine glove is like a ‘glove controller’ for games, and was introduced at E3 2009.
It has a total of 40 contact points combinations and it will be available this Fall for about 100€.
How it works:
Demonstration:
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More information about Peregrine glove at engadget.
Yesterday, 10 September 2008, after almost two decades of preparation and development, the first beam in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was successfully steered around 27 kilometers, in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
“We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe.”
Apparently there is a DX10 version available for windows XP (which I did not know).
DX10 was supposed to work only with Vista but it seems that Cody Brocious, the Alky Project leader, has released a version of DX10 do XP.
However, this is not an official release from Microsoft and results are not guaranteed, and neither the stability of your computer.
Event though, if you wish to know more about this project or if you want to give it a try, you can visit the Alky Project web site.
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Have you ever wondered where and why the term ‘BUG’, used to indicate a failure in a computer program, was born?
“A software bug (or just “bug”) is an error, flaw, mistake, “undocumented feature”, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended”
Thomas Edison and Grace Hopper are two names that stand out when talking about the etymology of the term ‘Bug’.
Thomas often recurred to the term in his letters to express ‘little faults and difficulties’.
“The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.”
According to Hopper, the cause of the malfunction was an insect.
“Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The operators who did find it (including William “Bill” Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren Va.), were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation ‘First actual case of bug being found.’ “
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