NPR:
WolframAlpha, the
website developed by the British-born scientist Stephen
Wolfram, is billed as a computational knowledge engine.The
search engine that is brimming with data can answer all sorts
of questions.Wolfram, who has a background in mathematics and
physics, says the concept is to take the systematic knowledge
accumulated in the history of civilization and try and make it
computable."One of the things we're trying to do is to get it
so that if science, engineering have made it possible to
compute something, we want to make it easy to compute something
for anybody," he says.
