Subject: Building a web interface similar to wolframalpha
From: Karl-Dieter Crisman
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:28:58 -0400
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> Hi,
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> Do you know about some efforts of making a free alternative to
> wolframalpha.com with maxima as engine? (I suppose tha maxima is the best
> candidate, at least for simbolic calculations)
See http://maxima.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.html for some
(scroll to Web interfaces running Maxima) for some things. I assume
here that the natural language interface is not as important
currently.
Although it doesn't have natural language interface (see
http://www.molto-project.eu/wiki/living-deliverables/d62-prototype-comanding-cas/gfsage-natural-language-interface-sage
for something along these lines) there does exist also the Sage cell
server, which would allow things like this:
http://aleph.sagemath.org/?q=4ae1fc8a-8681-4d65-a6ed-4426576ea53e
using Maxima. Eventually one should be able to do
%maxima
<maxima code>
but I think that hasn't been ported from Sage proper yet.