Every month or so, an email appears in Stephen Cook’s inbox from someone claiming to have solved one of the most important questions in computational science. Should one of Cook’s correspondents ...
PITTSBURGH—Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Russian Academy of Science will share the Association for Computing Machinery's 2007 Gödel Prize for their seminal work on what ...
A new proof, published to the Web less than one week ago, purports to finally demonstrate that, in complexity theory, P != NP. As fast as the proof went up though, people found some potential issues ...