WAFs Arrive and Plug In
August 4, 2010
Wolfram/Alpha Widgets or WAFS have arrived. WAFs are free, personalized mini-apps that leverage the depth and breadth of the Wolfram/Alpha computational knowledge engine. If you haven’t tried it, give it a spin at www.wolframalpha.com. Work through the tutorials so you can avoid the message “I don’t understand your question.” The widgets can do everything from kitchen recipe calorie converters to Calculus-based integration solvers (although, I must admit, I’m an old-school holdout on the integration widget.) You can build your own widget or browse Wolfram/Alpha’s gallery.
Developers will love WA’s Beta Widget builder. You can create your own widget for your personal application, then, if you choose, you can publish your widget in Web sites, blogs, or social networking platforms, and with uses ranging from nationwide salary comparison to human growth charts, if spend more time at http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/ than on social network sites, you will be ready for the problems at Wolfram Science.
Brett Quinn, August 4, 2010
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