Computation Sensation

Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly debuted his company's online "computational knowledge engine".
The Wolfram Alpha engine is a Web service designed to process data from controlled, vetted sources of data -- many not on the Web -- then present the results in a way that lets people dig deeper into the subject. It's something of a cross between a graphing calculator, repositories of scientific data, and a system to interpret questions posed in human terms.
For example, people can ask about the molecular weight of caffeine, about the location of a gene in the human genome, the number of people named Andrew born in a particular year, the amount of fish produced in France, the life expectancy of 40-year-olds, and the performance of Microsoft stock -- and then dig into the results.
CBS report HERE
video HERE
search engine HERE