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Wolfram|Alpha: another thing to frighten teachers…

19, May 2009

Making the world’s knowledge computable
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

http://www.wolframalpha.com
Wolfram|Alpha was officially launched yesterday, and although many of us having [...]

Citizen Journalist vs Police

23, Dec 2008

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A news story on Tech Wired Australia reports that an Australian man was threatened with mandatory arrest under anti-terrorism laws unless he surrendered his Blackberry mobile phone footage of police searching another man in public.
Who Watches The Watchers: Australian Threatened With Arrest Under Australian Anti-Terrorism Act For Being a Citizen Journalist
It poses [...]


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