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WOLFRAM ALPHA

Now, we did not waste our prestigious time to find an answer to a question by searching the several links on the web. British physicist Stephen Wolfram developed a new computational knowledge engine named ” Wolfram Alpha” for the web. In this online service, we can ask real questions, and it computes answers from structured data instead of providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer. This new answer engine was developed by Wolfram Research, an international company whose main product is a computational software “Mathematica”. Wolfram Alpha uses built-in models of fields of knowledge complete with data and algorithms to give the answer. It gives the answers about technology, geography, weather, cooking, business, travel, people, music, and more. It also computes on these facts including answering questions, solving equations, providing insights, projecting future behaviors, and more. In addition, it has a natural language interface for asking it questions. This interface allows us to ask questions in plain language. This engine is smarter than the search engine Google. It provides extremely impressive and thorough answers to a wide range of questions asked in many different ways, and it computes answers. Google simply retrieves documents based on keyword searches. However, Wolfram Alpha is not a general search engine. It does not do all things that the search engine is doing. It simply gives the answer for real questions. Hope that this answer engine for the web to be launched in May 18, 2009.

STEPHEN WOLFRAM

Stephen Wolfram is British physicist, mathematician, and businessman. He is famous for his work in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automaton, complexity theory, and computer algebra. He was born in London in 1959. He gained his education from Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20. Wolfram started to use computers in 1973 and in 1979, he began the construction of the computer algebra system SMP, and it was released in 1981. He is also the creator of Mathematica, a computational software . It was created on an international company named “Wolfram Research” Stephen wolfram has been president and CEO of this company since its founding in 1987. Wolfram is deeply involved in the development of the company’s technology, and continues to be personally responsible for overseeing all aspects of the functional design of the core Mathematica system . Now he is built a new computational data engine named “Wolfram Alpha” and it will be launched in 18th May, 2009.

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

A Cannes film festival is one of the famous, recognized and respected international film festivals of the world. This festival was founded in 1939 as a suggestion of the French minister Jean Zay. It is considered as one of the world’s most prestigious and oldest film festivals along with the Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Toronto Film Festival. The first Cannes festival was held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. Since then, it has been held annually in the May at the ‘Palais des Festivals et des Congrès’, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. In this festival, many films are viewed and judged by the internationally selected film committee which usually includes film experts from around the world. This festival not only brings world recognition to little-known directors, actors and writers, but also honors the film industry players who either have been forgotten or were not recognized in their lifetime. In addition, this festival attracts many celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Aiswarya Rai etc from around the world. The’Palme d’Or ‘(Golden Palm)award is the most prestigious Award in Cannes Film Festival. It is given for the ‘Best Film’. The award is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year. ‘The Grand Prix’ is second the most prestigious prize of this festival. ‘The Jury Prize’ is considered as the third most prestigious prize at the Cannes film festival, after the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix. A total of 57 full-length films from across countries is showcased in the festival. This global audience festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

BOLLYWOOD AT CANNES FESTIVAL

The global audiences for this annual festival make a movie spot for Hollywood and equally great important to Bollywood. A lot of Indian stars are attended in the festival. A.R.Rahman and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are included in the Cannes’ a guest list every year. Aiswarya is very closely associated with the Cannes film festival and also participated as a jury member in 2003. Her great film ‘Devdas’ and ‘Provoked’ were also screened at the Cannes festival. The greatest Indian Bengali film maker, Satyajit Ray`s Indian made movie ‘Pather Panchali’ was also showcased and awarded at Cannes in 1956. Several other Ray films were shown in the festival’s competition as well as in other official categories. In 1986, five other Indian films are including Shyam Benegal’s ‘Nishant’ and Mrinal Sen’s ‘Ek Din Pratidin’, Mira Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay’ and Shaji N Karun’s ‘Piravi’ were competed at the Cannes festival. The filmmakers like Rituparno Ghosh and Sudhir Mishra, Shonali Bose and others received international praise for their art works. In the previous Cannes Festival, a total of 57 full-length films from across 31 countries is lined-up to be showcased and 19 films have been competing for the top honor Palme d`Or awards. The jury headed by Oscar Award Winner Sean Penn. Now, the Cannes film festival is all set to celebrate its 62nd anniversary on this May. This year Cannes festival is started on 13 May, and it will be ended on May 24 in 2009. The official selection was announced for a total of 52 films are featured in four categories including Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, and Special Screenings. The President of the Jury is French actress Isabelle Huppert. An Indian actress ‘Sharmila Tagore’ is also selected as one of the members of the international jury of the Cannes Film Festival. The other members of the jury are Asia Argento (Italy), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea), James Gray (US), Hanif Kureishi(UK), Shu Qi (Taiwan) and Robin Wright Penn (US). Some of the Bollywood’s films including Kambakkht Ishq, Aladin, Kites and What’s your Rashee? etc, it will be showcased at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in this year.