A few weeks ago I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. It's about as adult-contemporary as a podcast gets: a roundtable of British academics talking about one ...

Quick verification A quantum computer has been shown to be faster than a classical one at verifying the solution to an NP-complete problem when provided with only a ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

A diagram showing the relevant complexity classes in the P vs NP problem. “P” problems are solvable in polynomial time; “NP” problems might be solvable in polynomial time, and are checkable in ...