Stephen Wolfram - creator of mathematica, and the man behind The New Kind Of Science.

Recently i was searching for something over the internet and but obvious the search engine was almighty google. I thrown a lot of keywords over it but i was not getting the desired result. After searching a while with google i become frustrated so i started to search other methods of web searching. Soon i landed up to www.wolframalpha.com which is recently launched as an alpha version. The team behind this product is describing this as a technology a Computational Knowledge Engine not as a search engine. To check this product's strength i decided to make my hands dirty with it. I messed with it and got very impressive and appreciable results. This product has all the potential to become a real google competitor.Actually this project is a futuristic vision of a very wise old man Mr. Stephen Wolfram. One can know more about him from www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/ . Building on Mathematica, A New Kind of Science, and the success of Wolfram Research, Wolfram in May 2009 launched WolframAlpha, the are calling it an ambitious, long-term project to make as much of the world's knowledge as possible computable, and accessible to everyone.WolframAlpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. Built with Mathematica—which is itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research—WolframAlpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, WolframAlpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica.