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Right Cortex Gets a Tool
Will the girls use it? Or will they, as nearly always, use it in a different manner than guys?
JimB "Mike Harvey "A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google. "WolframAlpha, named after Stephen Wolfram, the British-born computer scientist and inventor behind the project, takes a query and uses computational power to crunch through huge databases. "The service can compute the distance between two cities, the population of a country at a specific date and the position of the Space Shuttle at a given moment. The user does not have to search through links provided by the engine; the answer comes immediately and, if appropriate, is accompanied by charts or graphs." Http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6307744.ece See also piece by Larry Cahill (2009) His brain, her brain. Scientific American Mind, 20(3) 40-47. (Should appear shortly at www.sciammind.com) Cahill L (2006) Why sex matters for neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7: 477-484. |
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