Same with stocks apps, calculator apps, dictionary apps, and even broad-knowledge ones like those for Wolfram Alpha or Wikipedia.
Note: It seems that Facebook has limited Wolfram's API calls, so you might get an error when accessing the tool for now.
Wolfram Alpha LLC is a Wolfram Research company whose long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
"Like interacting with an expert, it will understand what you're talking about, do the computation, and then present you with the results, " said Dr Wolfram.
These are questions that can't be answered by Facebook's latest Graph Search, but they're perfect for the stats geeks over at Wolfram Alpha.
Currently, Siri uses Wolfram Alpha to display answers to questions asked.
Other companies that have been cited as possible Apple acquisition targets include Fusion-IO (FIO), another flash memory storage company, Twitter , and perhaps Wolfram Alpha .
"Our goal is to make expert knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime, " said Dr Wolfram at the demonstration at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.
While Siri relies on external databases for answers, such as the online encyclopedia Wolfram Alpha, Evi has a painstakingly amassed collection of 635 million facts on 28 million things.
Not only can S Note be used for play, it also brings serious productivity features such as an equation analyzer, shape recognition and integration with the Wolfram Alpha logistics engine.
"Our goal is to do what a top data scientist would do if given the user's data -- but to do it automatically in just a few seconds, " said Stephen Wolfram.
Like the best products, this lovely chart of the elements grew out of the passionate interest of its creator, Theodore Gray, one of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, maker of Mathematica software.
In research that Wolfram Schlenker and I have conducted using the Hadley III climate model, we project yield declines of about 20% over the next 20 years, holding all else the same.
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Dr Wolfram said the "trillions of pieces of data" were chosen and managed by a team of "experts" at Wolfram Research, who also massage the information to make sure it can be read and displayed by the system.
One militia in particular, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, "quickly became a front for drug smugglers from Gao, " Wolfram Lacher, a German expert on West Africa, wrote in a 2012 report for the Carnegie Endowment.
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