Tag archive: knowledge

Yahoo today launched a new service where people can ask questions and get answers from real people on any topic. Dubbed Yahoo! Answers, the service is currently in beta and available to all. Yahoo Answers, the company said, allows consumers to share their knowledge, personal experiences and opinions to resolve questions not easily

How does a prized source of worldy knowledge which is struggling to stay relevant in today's digital information age expand its horizons to chart a course for the future? If you're Encyclopedia Britannica, you bring in the big guns. The venerable publishing company today announced they were signing on fifteen of the world's brightest minds to a new "Editorial Board of Advisors". This new group, which includes Nobel… Read More

All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects. “The idea of information and knowledge, and retrieval of knowledge, has been something I've been intrigued with for a long time. This gives it a more solidified meaning,” said Karthik Ramani, a Purdue University professor who created a system that can find computer-designed industrial parts. Read the… Read More