Monday, May 18, 2009

More on the Wolfram Alpha Search Engine

Dragging health records into the Digital Age

Walk though a typical Kaiser Permanente doctor's office or hospital, and you won't find a paper chart lying around. Kaiser, with 450 hospitals and offices around the country, is almost entirely paperless. But as the rest of the health care industry rushes to follow in Kaiser's digital footsteps, Kaiser's paperless success story--a 10-year, $4 billion effort--might actually serve as a cautionary tale.

Brute force Hubble fix saves the day--again

Held up by a stripped screw, spacewalker Michael Massimino applied brute force to an otherwise delicate operation Sunday, breaking off an offending handrail inside the Hubble Space Telescope and then carefully unscrewing more than 100 small fasteners to get inside a dead science instrument.

Install Windows 7 on Almost Any Netbook

According to Gizmodo's John Herman, Windows 7 runs like a charm on diminutive netbooks.

Wolfram Alpha: A new slant on Web data

The online tool supplies answers to factual, data-intensive questions but also does math in the process. This weekend, it's set to open up to the public. This is a series of articles about the Web's newest, and perhaps most powerful, search engine.

Search Wolfram Alpha from the Firefox Search Box - Firefox

Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): So you've taken a look through Wolfram Alpha's impressive computational knowledge engine and find yourself using it constantly? Save time with a Firefox search plugin to make it easier to search.

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