Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.

BBC: Web tool 'as important as Google'

"Our goal is to do what a top data scientist would do if given the user's data -- but to do it automatically in just a few seconds, " said Stephen Wolfram.

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