Does Wolfram Alpha compute for government agencies?
By Rutrell YasinMay 29, 2009 Could government agencies take advantage of the computational power of Wolfram Alpha, the new knowledge engine launched last month? “Wolfram Alpha combines a new approach for collating data with revolutionary technology for accessing and computing on that data,” said Samer Diab, chief operating officer at Wolfram Solutions, the consulting services arm of Wolfram Research. “That power can be brought to bear in any place where government agencies want to access, correlate, distribute and compute on their data even more effectively,” he said. For example, the Census Bureau or the Commerce Department might want to post large volumes of data on its Web site or the Wolfram Alpha channel, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration might want to use the engine to enhance weather-forecasting data. Wolfram Alpha is the first step in a long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone, said Stephen Wolfram, co-founder and
