If you haven't heard about Wolfram|Alpha, you need to check it out at wolframalpha.com. It's online on and off right now and will officially be up on Monday. What is Wolfram|Alpha? Well... it's a little heard to explain. The site, which is available to everyone, makes "it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything." How can it do that? It's not easy. I'll let them explain how it's done: "As of now, Wolfram|Alpha 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—Wolfram|Alpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, Wolfram|Alpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica."
The only way you'll understand what the site does, is to check it out. So go there now.
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