Hi Bridget
It means that Stephen Wolfram, like Donald Trump, likes naming things after himself.
Michael
Michael Comiskey
Systems Manager
National Museums Northern Ireland
Cultra, Holywood, Co. Down, BT18 0EU
T - 028 9039 5152
M - 07917 544277
E - [log in to unmask]
www.nmni.com
This message contains confidential information and is intended only for [log in to unmask] If you are not one of the intended recipients, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify [log in to unmask] immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Michael Comiskey therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bridget McKenzie
Sent: 21 November 2013 13:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MCG] What will this mean for museums?
Clever people, what do you think this will mean for museums?
Big new thing coming from Wolfram Alpha
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/11/something-very-big-is-coming-our-most-important-technology-project-yet/
He says:
"inside the Wolfram Language we have a whole computable model of the world. And it becomes trivial to write a program that makes use of the latest stock price, computes the next high tide, generates a street map, shows an image of a type of airplane, or a zillion other things."
And it will lead to...
"There?ll be the Wolfram Programming Cloud, that allows one to create Wolfram Language programs, then instantly deploy them in the cloud through an instant API, or a form-based app, or whatever. Or deploy them in a private cloud, or, for example, through a Function Call Interface, deploy them standalone in desktop programs and embedded systems. And have a way to go from an idea to a fully deployed realization in an absurdly short time.
There?ll be the Wolfram Data Science Platform, that allows one to connect to all sorts of data sources, then use the kind of automation seen in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, then pick out and modify Wolfram Language programs to do data science?and then use CDF to set up reports to generate automatically, on a schedule, through an API, or whatever.
There?ll be the Wolfram Publishing Platform that lets you create documents, then insert interactive elements using the Wolfram Language and its free-form linguistics?and then deploy the documents, on the web using technologies like CloudCDF, that instantly support interactivity in any web browser, or on mobile using the Wolfram Cloud App.
Yours in bafflement
Bridget
****************************************************************
website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup
[un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/
****************************************************************
****************************************************************
website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup
[un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/
****************************************************************
|