Ask questions to Dr. Stephen Wolfram!

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  bishalp

  Dr Stephen Wolfram,
  
  I am a student of Power and Control Engineering. Next year is my final year and I got to do a project. I actually want to get into renewable energy and sort of things like that after my studies, so i am trying to work on a project design that will give me an edge over other students in that feild. What I want to know is, do you think its a good idea at all to build a sort of controlable robot that generates energy out of its own mini hydroplant built on it. Do you think its a good idea!!
  please tell me if you have got some better or modified ideas for me.
  thank you
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  raj87verma88

  bishalp

  Dr Stephen Wolfram,
  
  I am a student of Power and Control Engineering. Next year is my final year and I got to do a project. I actually want to get into renewable energy and sort of things like that after my studies, so i am trying to work on a project design that will give me an edge over other students in that feild. What I want to know is, do you think its a good idea at all to build a sort of controlable robot that generates energy out of its own mini hydroplant built on it. Do you think its a good idea!!
  please tell me if you have got some better or modified ideas for me.
  thank you

  Do you really want to ask such a question?
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  kirankumartk

  question to Dr. Stephen Wolfram
  
  sir,
  
  i would like to know how LAPLACE TRANSFORMATION started😕......
  
  And in real life, where are we using its application........
  
  As we say integration is joining of parts and differentiation is making of part, wat can we tell abt laplace transformation?😒
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Guys, can we ask questions relevant to Wolfram Alpha & Mathematica.
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  raj87verma88

  Q. What is the difference betwenn a normal search engine and a 'Computational' search engine?
  
  Q. How "Wolfram|Alpha" works?
  
  Q. What were the ideas that lead to it's development?
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  raj87verma88

  Q. What makes Mathematica different?
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  me.gr8

  Sir,
  
  First of all congrats to the launch of the wolframalpha.com. Its awesome site.. and i have already worked like an advertisemet for the site.
  
  Sir, How did you come up with such an idea to launch a website.? and also how do you get the exact information of each and every city in the world. i tried many of the less known cities and still you search gave me results.
  Also the temp. Humidity and every thing..
  
  once again i want to thank you for this awesome site.
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  kousalya

  I would like to know mini project idea of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  Please give the idea project for the speah to text and vise versa.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  kousalya

  I would like to know mini project idea of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  Please give the idea project for the speah to text and vise versa.

  This is really embarrassing. 😔
  
  For project ideas, go here - #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  Sensible questions, please. Engineers? 😕
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  sangee

  hai sir,
  I'm a student of electronics and communication engineering doing my 2nd year. would like to do a mini project,but dont have any idea.please give some ideas on what to do(recent trends) and how to strat with it.please guide me sir...........
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  raj87verma88

  bishalp

  Dr Stephen Wolfram,
  
  I am a student of Power and Control Engineering. Next year is my final year and I got to do a project. I actually want to get into renewable energy and sort of things like that after my studies, so i am trying to work on a project design that will give me an edge over other students in that feild. What I want to know is, do you think its a good idea at all to build a sort of controlable robot that generates energy out of its own mini hydroplant built on it. Do you think its a good idea!!
  please tell me if you have got some better or modified ideas for me.
  thank you

  kirankumartk

  sir,
  
  i would like to know how LAPLACE TRANSFORMATION started😕......
  
  And in real life, where are we using its application........
  
  As we say integration is joining of parts and differentiation is making of part, wat can we tell abt laplace transformation?😒

  kousalya

  I would like to know mini project idea of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  Please give the idea project for the speah to text and vise versa.

  sangee

  hai sir,
  I'm a student of electronics and communication engineering doing my 2nd year. would like to do a mini project,but dont have any idea.please give some ideas on what to do(recent trends) and how to strat with it.please guide me sir...........

  
  I think these guys deserve an award for asking the most relevant and best questions in a thread.
  
  @Biggie: I have many ideas for it. The budget is $200 if I am not wrong. Is there any machine that forces people's brain to think before they speak. Also a session with the optician so that they may see clearly.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I knew this would happen. Don't act like losers, guys.
  
  It's rarest of the rare opportunities brought to you by CrazyEngineers. Don't waste it. I hope you all appreciate the efforts that go behind bringing you such opportunities.
  
  Few hints on what you can ask -
  
  1. The concept of computational search engine.
  2. The wolfram alpha architecture. How it works.
  3. How does Wolfram Alpha use Mathematica to do the computing.
  4. About Mathematica, its creation etc.
  5. Next steps for Wolfram Alpha.
  6. What's next big thing from Dr. Wolfram?
  
  Think! Use your brain!
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  adhi shankar.r

  😁i want to know about the transmission lines

  The_Big_K

  Yep!
  
  It's Unbelievable!
  
  Dr. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha has agreed to answer your questions on CrazyEngineers!
  
  We, however, have a very strict deadline. We'll accept the questions only till Sunday Evening [ June 07, 2009 ].
  
  About Dr. Wolfram: Stephen Wolfram: Official Website
  Wolfram Alpha : Computational Search Engine: Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
  Mathematica: Wolfram: Computation Meets Knowledge
  
  
  Waiting for awesome questions! Get started, NOW!

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  mddeepthi

  hi
  i am a student in my third year. i have been selected as projects head for thermal stream . i am expected to give project ideas related to thermal stream. please suggest some ideas or some sites i should search

  The_Big_K

  Yep!
  
  It's Unbelievable!
  
  Dr. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha has agreed to answer your questions on CrazyEngineers!
  
  We, however, have a very strict deadline. We'll accept the questions only till Sunday Evening [ June 07, 2009 ].
  
  About Dr. Wolfram: Stephen Wolfram: Official Website
  Wolfram Alpha : Computational Search Engine: Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
  Mathematica: Wolfram: Computation Meets Knowledge
  
  
  Waiting for awesome questions! Get started, NOW!

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  Harshad Italiya

  these guys are asking for Project ideas !!
  I think they come to know about this thread via admin's email to all members 😀
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  hituwithastick

  hello sir! i m student of computer technology and i would like to ask you about software requrenment in your company,i would like to do big project for that,so plz tell me software requrements in ur company!
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  yoonhong

  Dear Sir,
  1)why
  
  ∆f(x, y)= λ∆g(x,y)
  where
  λ is the langrange multiplier
  can you show me the proof?
  thank you in advance😉
  
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  RandyXi

  Dr Stephen Wolfram,
  
  Good day… I’ll describe my project I’m working on and if you can guide me along my project and will Mathematica help in this project,
  
  

  • Project Info: It’s an Earth Resistance meter that will acquire analog data transmitted to the earth and receive to be plot in the computer using application capable of plotting the data into 2D to almost 3D, where as I’m using Multisim and OrCAD to design the electronics to Transrecieve different range of voltage, current and frequency to and from the earth on a large land mass, I’m also using Mplab to program into the circuitry, I know about NI, and Matlab, but I need a program that could be able to do what I want, the aim is to scan a large area of land and be able to view in 2D/3D, for example, if there’s oil, water, an open space (air pockets) metal, iron, rock, plastic, hard or soft soil, etc… you will be able to view is, the receive data will be consist of
  • 1- phase shift (when scanning deeper into the earth, all 2, 3 and 4 will be changing in fix rang higher or lower on there parameters)
  • 2- show a discrepancy in amplitude (to determine the object size)
  • 3- show a discrepancy in frequencies and harmonics (to determine the object texture)
  • 4- time domain ( time delay monitoring of data send and receive, to determine the object distance)

  
  From 1 to 4, the data that will be acquired, will be process from analog to digital for the use of plotting, and I will like to know more about Mathematica and if you understand what my project is about, if I made it clear to you please ask for more info if not understood, thanks
  
  Charran Sinanan
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  Harshad Italiya

  What brings you create wolframalpha? is there any interesting incident?
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  rasia

  i'm an electronics and communication engineering student and need ur kind advice on whether choosing "3D TV- Implementation using digital holography" as a seminar topic would be OK or not?................i also want to know whether image mosiaking can be implemented using knowledge of image processing?......can i get more details on the arm processor too?
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  raj87verma88

  I feel like deleting these posts. Or a better idea why not start a thread titled "The Worlds Stupidest Posts" and move all these "Help me with project" etc posts there.
  
  Are these people really engineers. How were they even able to crack the entrance examinations if they cannot read and understand the meaning of this thread and what type of posts are expected.
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  aniket.mone

  Sir,
  
  Are the new rules of logic upon which computation can be based radically different than conventional logic? Or is it an extension of Conventional Logic + something else.
  
  How to explore more about the new logic from a programming or automation point of view?
  
  Highest regards,
  #-Link-Snipped-#
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  aniket.mone

  raj87verma88

  I feel like deleting these posts. Or a better idea why not start a thread titled "The Worlds Stupidest Posts" and move all these "Help me with project" etc posts there.
  
  Are these people really engineers. How were they even able to crack the entrance examinations if they cannot read and understand the meaning of this thread and what type of posts are expected.

  
  Hi Raj,
  
  I'm not sure if I posted correctly by replying you as I'm using CE the first time.
  
  My message is here: #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  Please re-post if it is in wrong location. It is a reply to #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  And yes, thanks to u and CE for this opportunity.
  
  Best,
  Aniket
  
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Aniket, you question is 'GOOD'. Don't worry. Hopefully it'll make it to top 12 questions.
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  myc261

  Just visit the wolfram site and its very interesting..
  i have some questions..
  Admin if you like the question than post it else delete it.
  
  1. Your search engine is based on which technology??? like google, yahoo etc. whats the difference??
  
  2. Does your software replace many other mathematics software for higher and complex calculations, like matlab??
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  myc261

  Just visit the wolfram site and its very interesting..
  i have some questions..
  Admin if you like the question than post it else delete it.
  
  1. Your search engine is based on which technology??? like google, yahoo etc. whats the difference??
  
  2. Does your software replace many other mathematics software for higher and complex calculations, like matlab??

  Good questions. We are welcoming all relevant questions.
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  aniket.mone

  The_Big_K

  Aniket, you question is 'GOOD'. Don't worry. Hopefully it'll make it to top 12 questions.

  
  Many Thanks. Actually I have many questions, but thought that I should not spam the post! If I get reply to this question , I'll be lucky
  
  Best,
  Aniket
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Dr. Wolfram won't be answering the questions in this thread. We will pick up top 12 questions and present them to Dr. Wolfram. We'll publish his response in our Small Talk -> Link -> #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  So, post all your questions.
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  shreyassaxena

  congrats sir for your awesome work.......
  not getting to point sir actually I am working on a research paper which requires your mathematical knowledge .
  My basic idea is the Magnetic fields of lines of a magnet are a type of family of curves constrained by the laws of magnetics and say if I get two magnets close to each other then two family of curves will intersect and we can find out general coordinates of the point where the two curves intersect,now if I am able to find out a general equation of curve passing through these points I will get the resultant magnetic field of the two magnets and if this method is used in 3-D vector space then a curve can be a magnetic field can be visualized..
  sir i require your help regarding how can i get a generalized family of curve from a generalized set of points assuming i know one fixed point through which the curve passes.
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  durga ch

  hmm..
  
  Google uses indexes and a crawling mechanism to search for information from millions of servers.
  
  Though we understand that Alpha uses computational algorithms to return results ,its obvious that even Alpha needs to do a similar mechanism to first extract information and then apply computations right?
  
  So how does Alpha achive this?
  As well, computation can be considered as extra step so how is it that the response time is optimized in this effort of bringing up relavant results?
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  zaki_whiz03

  sir,
  i am a 3rd yr. mechanical engineering sutdent. I want u to help me out for selecting a project for an industry oriented mini project and the major project....
  and what are the booming streams in this field.. also i want u to advise me for selecting the subject for my masters programme..
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  zaki_whiz03

  plzzz can some one tell me how to use mathematica....
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  kkowuko

  Hello,
  
  Good day Dr. I am a student of an Communication Engineering Student who will be completed next year. In line with this I will be grateful for your assistant in my project work. I will want to do it in all aspect of Communication.
  
  I am in Ghana, West Africa. I will be grateful to hear from you.
  
  Thanks.
  
  Kofi Kokuro Kwateng Amaning.
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  durga ch

  
  * Guys, we understand you all are very tensed about your college projects. and hence CE has exclusive threads to answer your queries .
  For heaven's sake DONNOT post you project queires here *
  
  This is a request!!!
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  sneha priya

  Respected Sir,
  I am an engineering(electronics and communication engineering) and student studying in India. I want to know if there is any exam to make me a globally recognized engineer. I want to work in Japan, since most of my relatives are there. so i would be glad if you could tell me what i should do to get a good job in Japan.
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  RandyXi

  Dr Stephen Wolfram,
  
  Good day… I’ll describe my project I’m working on and if you can guide me along my project and will Mathematica help in this project,
  
  

  • Project Info: It’s an Earth Resistance meter that will acquire analog data transmitted to the earth and receive to be plot in the computer using application capable of plotting the data into 2D to almost 3D, where as I’m using Multisim and OrCAD to design the electronics to Transrecieve different range of voltage, current and frequency to and from the earth on a large land mass, I’m also using Mplab to program into the circuitry, I know about NI, and Matlab, but I need a program that could be able to do what I want, the aim is to scan a large area of land and be able to view in 2D/3D, for example, if there’s oil, water, an open space (air pockets) metal, iron, rock, plastic, hard or soft soil, etc… you will be able to view is, the receive data will be consist of
  • 1- phase shift (when scanning deeper into the earth, all 2, 3 and 4 will be changing in fix rang higher or lower on there parameters)
  • 2- show a discrepancy in amplitude (to determine the object size)
  • 3- show a discrepancy in frequencies and harmonics (to determine the object texture)
  • 4- time domain ( time delay monitoring of data send and receive, to determine the object distance)

  
  From 1 to 4, the data that will be acquired, will be process from analog to digital for the use of plotting, and I will like to know more about Mathematica and if you understand what my project is about, if I made it clear to you please ask for more info if not understood, thanks
  
  Charran Sinanan
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  aadi_trivedi

  can u help me?? i want to design a java enabled web server as my major project?
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  ericlp

  Dear God, I mean Dr!!! hahaha
  
  Got any openings for a network / computer IT person! 😀 I'll move and do it! hahaha
  
  Thanks!
  
  Hey you did ask for questions right? Sorry if this is off topic or totally inappropriate but what the hell. I might as well be asking Santa for a job.
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  bishalp

  raj87verma88

  Do you really want to ask such a question?

  
  cant you reply??
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I'm watching this thread hopelessly. Here's recent addition. Someone sent me a question through mail.
  
  

  How to partition the memory in order to install fedora????

  God save these 'so called' engineers.
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  kashish0711

  Cool I was looking for this opportunity from the day this Search Engine was launched. Alright here are my questions.
  
  Q1:
  We humans dream something then we try to create it and from many many years or decades ago we carried a dream for a "Super Computer", which we believe will exist one day and will know the answer to everything. What I see is that "Wolfram'sAlfa" is on it's way of becoming something similar in a long term project. I want to ask that if one day you are able to collect systematically all proper technical knowledge available till the date then the at that day, will "Wolfram'sAlfa" be anywhere equal or better to our dream of supercomputer? And if not then how will it be different than that?
  
  
  Q2:
  I wanna know about your near future objectives regarding Wolfram Alfa?
  
  
  Q3:
  Today we are getting massively dependent on computer technology and in last 100 years we have come a long way in computer technology field, thanks to this we have some great things like mathematica. But I want to have your opinion that how do you think this dependence on computer technology is gonna affect our future generation?
  
  
  wow can't wait for his replies. Thank You CE for this wonderful opportunity. :smile:
  
  
  Friends please stop humiliating yourselves by asking question on your projects.
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  silverscorpion

  First of all, Wolfram Alpha is great. It's a new approach towards web and I welcome it. Thanks very much. And I do have a few questions..
  
  1) Following suit, now Google has it's own type of an Answer Engine called Google Squared.
  What are the similarities and differences between wolfram alpha and Google squared?
  
  2) Could you tell us something about your business model? ie, Google gets revenue thru it's ads. How does wolfram alpha make money??
  
  3) All these can be seen as a step towards making the whole web into a single large database. With the ever growing size of the web space, do you think it'll be feasible to try to build and maintain such a large database?
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  uetian

  I would like to ask from Dr.wolfram that what is most important and frequent use of matrices in of daily life.
  thaks
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  magreztron

  Owwh, what disappointed me... As a Doctor, you shouldn't be arrogant in answering every question...
  😔😔😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Good to see 'good' questions here 😀
  
  We'll be closing this thread in next 14 hours.
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  mahesh_b95

  Dear Sir, (stephan wolfram)
  
  i am having a question on how to write a program so that it recognises the grain boundaries form a 2D image as a input.and the out put is the numerical value of the grain size, kindly do reply
  
  thank you
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  theneupane

  In my final year B.E. project , i am gonna try to make a project that converts speech to text......so i request you to please help me for this project....where should i start and how?????i have no idea??

  The_Big_K

  Yep!
  
  It's Unbelievable!
  
  Dr. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha has agreed to answer your questions on CrazyEngineers!
  
  We, however, have a very strict deadline. We'll accept the questions only till Sunday Evening [ June 07, 2009 ].
  
  About Dr. Wolfram: Stephen Wolfram: Official Website
  Wolfram Alpha : Computational Search Engine: Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
  Mathematica: Wolfram: Computation Meets Knowledge
  
  
  Waiting for awesome questions! Get started, NOW!
  
  Update: We'll collect top 12 questions from this thread. Dr. Wolfram's responses will be published here -> #-Link-Snipped-# .

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  sarveshgupta

  Wolfram Alpha is the new budding huge electronic almanac with vast scientific calculations wrapped under its belt. Feeling grateful to get this opportunity, I want to ask the following questions:
  
  1.) What is Wolfram Alpha according to you and who is its target user?
  
  2.) Sir, What made you think of such great thought? What were the challenges in front of you to implement this?
  
  3.) What does computational aspect of things or computational knowledge really mean? How does Wolfram Alpha employ this?
  
  4.) What is the massive data it is pulling from and how does it produces its results?
  
  5.) Sir, please throw some light on the infrastucture of Wolfram Alpha and the powerful servers behind Wolfram Alpha? Is the Supercomputer architecture different from that used by other search engines, if yes then how?
  
  6.) It has been said that Wolfram Alpha will get refined and become more and more vast in the future. So, what can we see the next big thing potentially coming down the line from Wolfram Alpha?
  
  7.) Sir, I read somewhere that Wolfram Alpha uses more than 50,000 algorithms to provide the relevant results. Can you tell me about the categorisation of the use of these algorithms, that is where and how these algorithms are used at different steps in Wolfram Alpha?
  How have you ensured that the time complexity remains minimal ( that is, one gets a quick response ) inspite of so much computations involved in every search?
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  Anil Jain

  1) Wolfram Alpha, can answer questions that have never been asked before, provided the data to create the answer exists in its corpus of facts and figures. This idea is an unique idea, what were the major challenges you face while inculcating this is Wolfarm Alpha?
  
  2) A real challenge for Alpha is processing complex or long queries, there's always a great chance of getting a lots of "artificial stupidity" queries. What are the basic challenges you faced to maintain the processing power of Wolfarm Aplha sevres, when millions of users hitting the servers with obscure requests?
  
  3) Right now by looking at the "Wolfram Aplha" it looks like this is designed to use by the tech savy world only? Do you have plans to launch it for non-tech savy world as well?
  
  4) Microsfy is going to launch "KUMO"; Yahoo, Google are already there - eating more then half of the search engine market. However all of these search engines are free; Wolfram is very different and advance then each of them. Do you have plan to launch a paid version of Alpha?
  
  -cb
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  Prasad Ajinkya

  1. How is the internal knowledge base of the WA structured? And what are the plans to build it further?
  2. When do developers get to peek under the hood?
  3. How is user generated content curated into the internal knowledge base?
  4. Is the data curation available as a separate API for developers - without the need for asking an input to generate computations. I mean to ask, can third party devs use only the data curation as a stand-alone technology.
  5. Can everything be answered through computations 😀 (@Biggie - leave this as an aftermath, even I do not know how to answer this)
  6. Can user generated content be fed into WA's knowledge base?
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  bishalp

  The_Big_K

  Good to see 'good' questions here 😀
  
  We'll be closing this thread in next 14 hours.

  
  
  close it now....
  my inbox is constnantly getting meseages due to this thread
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  9001Abhi

  i am 3rd year student i want to do summer training.i like design.so which training is better for me?suggest some company?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Engineering students asking for project ideas. Are you INSANE? I just wrote something for you on my blog. Read it here -> #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  @ Bishalp: Check the mail. There 'unsubscribe' option.
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  ashish_tamrakar

  Sir,I have completed my Engineering course from my country(Nepal) and now I'v been in australia for 8 months for good career but Im studying here diploma in IT.But, I want to study master in civil engineering ,I don't have enough fund to study master and i dunt have good work so that i can work and able to afford for master fees.can U please advice me that is there any scholar programmee in australia so that it will be beneficial for me?And I really want to Be in my field.Please give me a good suggestion. Thank you
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @ Ashish - you want to ask THAT to Dr. Wolfram? The creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha?
  
  Unbelievable!
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  ravali

  Dr.stephan,
  i have finished my 2nd year of engg....and my stream is electrical n electronics.....i wud like u to suggest me few topics for my mini project and the main project....am interested in d field of power systems......kindly suggest me the related topics....am not aware of topics yet.since am in my 2nd year.....!!!
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  chetansunray

  dear sir,
  thanks for giving me your valuable time to answer my quastion.
  
  Iam going to manufacturing a plasic injection moulding machine having capacity of 1127 Grm.
  So tell me whate is the basic calculation and it formula for calculating
  1. size of hydraulic cylinder for injection, for toggle force ...
  2. how we know the motor H.P. to drive the pump?
  3. how to calculate the hydraulic pump capacity?
  4. how to calculate hydraulic motor torqur and its diaceplacement?
  
  please guide me .
  
  chetan
  =====================================================
  

  The_Big_K

  Yep!
  
  It's Unbelievable!
  
  Dr. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha has agreed to answer your questions on CrazyEngineers!
  
  We, however, have a very strict deadline. We'll accept the questions only till Sunday Evening [ June 07, 2009 ].
  
  About Dr. Wolfram: Stephen Wolfram: Official Website
  Wolfram Alpha : Computational Search Engine: Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
  Mathematica: Wolfram: Computation Meets Knowledge
  
  
  Waiting for awesome questions! Get started, NOW!
  
  Update: We'll collect top 12 questions from this thread. Dr. Wolfram's responses will be published here -> #-Link-Snipped-# .

• 

  kashish0711

  The_Big_K

  @ Ashish - you want to ask THAT to Dr. Wolfram? The creator of Mathematica & WolframAlpha?
  
  Unbelievable!

  😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
  
  rofl
  
  these guys are crazy lol😁
• 

  chetansunray

  dear sir,
  thanks for giving me your valuable time to answer my quastion.
  
  Iam going to manufacturing a plasic injection moulding machine having capacity of 1127 Grm.
  So tell me whate is the basic calculation and it formula for calculating
  1. size of hydraulic cylinder for injection, for toggle force ...
  2. how we know the motor H.P. to drive the pump?
  3. how to calculate the hydraulic pump capacity?
  4. how to calculate hydraulic motor torqur and its diaceplacement?
  
  please guide me
• 

  Kaustubh Katdare

  Alright folks. We'll be closing this after about three hours from now.