Wolfram Alpha, the incredibly useful (if oddly named) computational search engine, has won a coveted place in Popular Science's yearly top innovations selection: it's one of the "Best of What's New" in 2009.
A detailed profile of Wolfram Alpha, along with a background piece on Stephen Wolfram, the search engine's founder, will appear in the December 2009 issue of Popular Science, which came out yesterday (November 12). Congratulations to the W/A team - it's a well-deserved honor!
More about Wolfram Alpha: Not your average search engine. Wolfram Alpha is a computational, question and answer engine (it is NOT a search engine, it does NOT scour the Web for information) that will give you statistical-type answers for whatever query you might come up with.