Innovator Stephen Wolfram channels science for his latest computational invention, Wolfram Alpha. His work stems from the realization that there is "too much" information available today, in different forms, to make it fully usable by us, poor human beings. Basically we rely on lists of results already written and calculated for other purposes, ranked according to many factors, including how many other users find these results useful.
But wouldn't it be nice to actually use these data to obtain the exact results we are looking for? So the concept is to resolve how we communicate with computers to do research and also to let them actually compute data on the fly to bring us results that have never been computed before. In other words, to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.
Hmm, bringing intelligence to search results. Using computers to actually compute and not only bring us the yellow pages. Now that is promising!
Source: Forbes.com Video Network - Thought Leaders
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