Monday, September 7, 2009
Google, “The Last Library,” and Millions of Metadata Mistakes :
Search giant says it's improving, and that a massive project inevitably means a percentage of errors
Friday, May 22, 2009
The press release describing the new statement on Open Access issued by the International Federation of Library Associations jointly with the International Publishers Association
http://tinyurl.com/ifla-ipa
http://tinyurl.com/ifla-ipa
WolframAlpha Service
Rick Friedman for The New York Times
Mr. Wolfram’s service does not search through Web pages, and it will not help with movie times or camera shopping. Instead it computes the answers to queries using enormous collections of data the company has amassed. It can quickly spit out facts like the average body mass index of a 40-year-old male, whether the Eiffel Tower is taller than Seattle’s Space Needle, and whether it is high tide in Miami right now. WolframAlpha, which is expected to be available to the public at wolframalpha.com in the next week, is not a finished product. It is an early working version of a project that has been years in the making and will continue to evolve over years, if not decades. As such, there is much it cannot answer now.
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