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There's been quite a bit of very excited press recently about Wolfram Alpha: Making the world's knowledge computable. (It came up today in responses to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akiko's question about finding distances between stars, for example: it appears to be the ideal tool for that.) As is usual for Stephen Wolfram's projects, it it billed as a transformative advance in the development and organization of human knowledge. (Why, just a few years ago he wrote a book entitled A New Kind of Science, which was hilariously reviewed by one of my graduate school professors.)
Well, with all this attention for Wolfram Alpha, I have to put in a plug for my Ph.D. advisor Jeff Harvey's competing service, Harvey Omega: Making the world's knowledge intuitable. (Jeff is also the author of "The Maldacena", which he performed at the 1998 international string theory conference.)
akiko's question about finding distances between stars, for example: it appears to be the ideal tool for that.) As is usual for Stephen Wolfram's projects, it it billed as a transformative advance in the development and organization of human knowledge. (Why, just a few years ago he wrote a book entitled A New Kind of Science, which was hilariously reviewed by one of my graduate school professors.)Well, with all this attention for Wolfram Alpha, I have to put in a plug for my Ph.D. advisor Jeff Harvey's competing service, Harvey Omega: Making the world's knowledge intuitable. (Jeff is also the author of "The Maldacena", which he performed at the 1998 international string theory conference.)