But nevertheless the show must go on. So today a quick note on an announcement made by Stephen Wolfram at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He, a man who I greatly admire, is the mover and shaker behind the computational search engine, Wolfram|Alpha, is kicking off the Wolfram Connected Devices Project.
The project is focused on collecting information initially on more than 2,000 connected devices to develop a complete language for the Internet of Things. This is an open project with a goal to use the Wolfram-derived programming language for embedding into devices from wearable watches to GPS devices, to smart meters, to robots. If successful almost any Internet-enabled device will share a common way to communicate.
The Wolfram Language is a derivation of Mathematica, a symbolic programming tool with enhanced pattern matching. Today the language can be found in applications developed for education, science, engineering and finance. It is also the language used by a do-it-yourself computer kit, Kano and Raspberry Pi, which I recently wrote about on this blog (see picture below). And in attempting to become the common language currency of two-way communication for devices connected to the Internet it should contribute dramatically to an enhanced Internet of Things.
