{"id":10277,"date":"2009-04-30T03:14:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2009-04-30T03:14:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T02:14:56","slug":"la-conoscenza-da-leibniz-a-wolfram-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/la-conoscenza-da-leibniz-a-wolfram-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"La conoscenza da Leibniz a Wolfram Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolframalpha.com\/2009\/04\/29\/the-quest-for-computable-knowledge-a-longer-view\/\">Via Stephen Wolfram<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wolfram.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10279\" title=\"wolfram\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wolfram.gif\" alt=\"wolfram\" width=\"71\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s really a very long and rich history behind the kinds of things we\u2019re doing with Wolfram|Alpha. And in fact, a little while ago my staff took some notes of mine and assembled a timeline about the history of \u201cThe Quest for Computable Knowledge.\u201d I think it makes interesting reading; there\u2019s quite a diverse collection of elements, some very well known, some not. I\u2019ve always been particularly struck by Gottfried Leibniz\u2019s role. He really had pretty much the whole idea of Wolfram|Alpha\u2014300 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the 1600s he came to believe that somehow there must be a way to mechanize the resolution of all human arguments. He imagined that one could represent human discourse using logic and mathematics. Then he imagined that one could use a machine to work out answers from this\u2014and in fact he even built some small mechanical calculators himself.<\/p>\n<p>He also realized that to provide raw material for his mechanization it would be necessary to assemble lots of knowledge. So he worked hard to get libraries constructed, and to invent systems for organizing them. Of course there were some elements missing. But Leibniz really had the right basic idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Stephen Wolfram There\u2019s really a very long and rich history behind the kinds of things we\u2019re doing with Wolfram|Alpha. And in fact, a little while ago my staff took some notes of mine and assembled a timeline about the history of \u201cThe Quest for Computable Knowledge.\u201d I think it makes interesting reading; there\u2019s quite &#8230; <a title=\"La conoscenza da Leibniz a Wolfram Alpha\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/la-conoscenza-da-leibniz-a-wolfram-alpha\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su La conoscenza da Leibniz a Wolfram Alpha\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,19],"tags":[787,757],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-internet","category-tecnologia","tag-matematica","tag-wolfram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10280,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}