WolframAlpha

May 18, 2009

WolframAlpha was announced in March 2009 by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. Unlike Google, which searches for web resources to match a query, WolframAlpha generates answers to factual queries by computing the answer from available data.

Watch Part 2 of of the video.

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Books Alive 2008

August 6, 2008

 Books Alive 2008

The annual Books Alive promotion of “50 books you can’t put down” is now on. The titles are a mix of old and new, for adults and children, fiction and nonfiction. You can download the full list and promotional information from the website. Some of the children’s titles are also on this year’s Children’s Book Council Shortlists, with winners to be announced next week. Our CMIS Book Week page contains details.

The Books Alive promotion includes a number of events in WA and ends on 31 August.

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