Jerome Cukier

In March this year, überscientist Stephen Wolfram, of Mathematica fame, revealed the world he was working on something new, something big, something different. The first time I heard of this was through semantic web prophet Nova Spivack, who is not known to get excited by less-than-revolutionary projects. That, plus the fact that the project was [...]

This last two weeks, three high-profile data-related services have been released: google’s public data, Wolfram|Alpha and data.gov. In the next couple of posts I’m going to review all three. But before I’d like to go back to 2007, when Swivel.com and Many-eyes.com were released. Those 2 services allow users to publish their own data visualizations, [...]