How Stephen Wolfram Plans To Reinvent Data Science & Make Wearables Useful

The Wolfram Language will become publicly available in the next few weeks, Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram promised in a recent keynote at SXSW.

In that keynote, he demonstrated a few of the Wolfram Language’s amazing powers: In response to nearly natural-language queries, it’s able to parse phrases and generate remarkably sophisticated responses. A few of the demonstration’s more outrageous examples, all accomplished with just one line of code (often via iterative, interactive modifications of that single line):

• generating a list of former Soviet republics, displaying their flags, and computing which one was visually the most similar to the French flag.
• attempting to recognize handwritten digits and translate them into computable numbers...