WolframAlpha: David Weinberger interviews Stephen Wolfram

Though I kept wanting him to challenge a bit more, here is an interesting, fairly searching and definitely thought-provoking 55 minute interview with Stephen Wolfram about WolframAlpha [MP3] by David Weinberger.

WolframAlpha is  described by Wolfram as a new "computational knowledge engine", and it is due to be launched by Wolfram's company during May.

I listened into a presentation about WolframAlpha on 14 April, and summarised this fairly enthusiastically here. Meanwhile, there is some sceptical commentary about WolframAlpha here on Slashdot.