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'something Very Big Is Coming,' Hints Stephen Wolfram
Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram on Wednesday said he and his team have developed a general-purpose knowledge-based language called the Wolfram Language that covers all forms of computing in a new way. The language will enable the team to create something new using all of the computational knowledge, symbolic programming, algorithm automation, and other resources they have developed for Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, and CDF. The development will be "profoundly important in the technological world, and beyond," Wolfram says.
"In most languages there's a sharp distinction between programs, and data, and the output of programs. Not so in the Wolfram Language," Wolfram says. "It's all completely fluid . . . And everything becomes both intrinsically scriptable, and intrinsically interactive. And there's both a new level of interoperability, and a new level of modularity."
The Wolfram Language and the Universal Deployment System offer an immensely powerful new universal platform, Wolfram says. The team is releasing several tools that utilize the Wolfram Engine and the Universal Platform, including the Wolfram Programming Cloud, the Wolfram Data Science Platform, the Wolfram Publishing Platform, and Mathematica Online.
From Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence Network
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