On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM, kcrisman<kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear sage-devel, > > MAA president David Bressoud talks about Wolfram Alpha here: > http://www.maa.org/columns/launchings/launchings_08_09.html > > The relevance to sage-devel is the interesting semantic interpreting > of various requests for integrals in the second or third paragraph. > Not that Sage will be going that way anytime soon, and perhaps > shouldn't have such semantic interpretation skills, but seems > interesting nonetheless.
It says: "The kinds of questions that WeBWorK is best at asking are the same questions that Wolfram|Alpha is best at answering." I'm getting these funny "War Games" images in my head that involve WeBWorK automatically and rapidly asking questions, Wolfram|Alpha rapidly answering them, and eventually deciding the answer is "Global Thermo-Nuclear War". William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
