Monday, May 18, 2009

Wolfram Alpha - Computational Knowledge Engine


It was officially launced today, and I had some chance to 'play' with it. I am impressed by a few of its features. One of them is when you input "ATTAGCGTTCAA", Wolfram Alpha recognizes it as a genome sequence and outputs some matches in human genome. :) Isn't that fun ? I believe it is going to be a serious competitor to Wikipedia.

There are also a few crypto related features. You can hash a given string using MD2, MD5 and SHA.

Here is a 13 minute demo, if you are interested. http://www65.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

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