I stopped watching the webcast (see part 2) about two hours in.  While WolframAlpha may go down over the weekend, it is up now for experimenting.  In part 1, I worried about my first impression: What is interesting to me is that it gives you the answer, but not the source. For calculations, there isn’t [...]

The process of bringing Wolfram Alpha online is being webcast live right now.  It starts with a 5 minute intro along with some other pre-recorded clips.  Some interesting tidbits: it will be run on thousands of CPUs it is planned to be a 48 process – presumably shooting for being fully live Monday morning the [...]