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Submitted by -Mezzo- 343d ago | article

Building the Star Trek computer: how Google's Knowledge Graph is changing search

TheVerge - "When Kirk asks the computer some complex question and it answers him intelligently, drawing from a bunch of different sources, that's the vision," Google spokesperson Jason Freidenfelds told me last week. He then introduced me to John Giannandrea, Director of Engineering at Google, and the man tasked with making the Star Trek computer come to life. Giannandrea and his team recently launched Knowledge Graph, a informational meta-sidebar you may've noticed in Google Search. (Google, PC hardware)

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