Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

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In 2002 Stephen Wol­fram released A New Kind of Sci­ence and imme­di­ate­ly unleashed a firestorm of won­der, con­tro­ver­sy, and crit­i­cism as the British-born sci­en­tist, pro­gram­mer, and entre­pre­neur over­turn…

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Twitcident: tweet mining for emergency management

Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

It’s not just for insane hashtags anymore! Twitcident is mining the service to help manage everything from fires to crowded concerts.

Twit­ter might seem like an enor­mous stream of aim­less chat­ter. But, to an increas­ing num­ber of agen­cies,…

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