In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds ...

It turned out to be difficult to find the first NP-complete problem, but it was demonstrated in 1971 that SAT was NP-complete. When you first hear about this, a natural thought is how can so many ...

One of the NP problems that you need to know is Boolean satisfiability or SAT. First, however, meet CircuitSAT, which is closely related and slightly easier to work with. If you put together a Boolean ...

A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do. At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s conference on the ...

This course will provide a solid foundation and background for the design and analysis of algorithms. In particular, upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand, ...