"My children always likes to tease me, asked me had a few days before Christmas. Usually it is not that easy to can work it out, but now you have to do is just ask your cell phone."
Four months ago, in California library (Cupertino) than he Apple (Apple Inc.) headquarters, the company's senior vice President Scott Forstall cheerfully to show the world with their proud intelligence Siri assistant. He hands iPhone 4 S long press the HOME button, on the pan with purple mysterious halo microphone asked:
"Now from Christmas and for a few days?"
"Let me check... wait... I for you to find the answer."
A strain of cloud computing later, Scott got what he wanted the answer: "82 days, or that is 2 months and 21 days, also is zero 5 day 11 weeks, also is 58 days, namely 0.22 years."
Is from that moment, just make many people heard Wolfram Alpha of this intelligent search engine's name.
In fact, Wolfram Alpha with apple and do not have too great relationship. Its founder Stephen Wolfram will be defined as a "professional knowledge search engine". This year at the age of 52 Stephen Wolfram is a legendary scientists, software designers and entrepreneurs--15 years old when he published his first paper physics paper, at the age of 20 for the California Institute of Technology (California Institute of Technology) the doctoral degree, 22 years old, was awarded the highest prize of multidisciplinary one of MacArthur prize (MacArthur prize).
Stephen Wolfram in 2009 Wolfram Alpha announced the plan, it is the first edition with about five million done Mathematica code, and in 10000 a run on the central processor. In 2010, in Long Beach, California (Long Beach) TED conference, Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Alpha to all people, reveals the reason for the plan.
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