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It showed that scheduling meetings is a difficult problem, on par with some of the great problems in computer science." 'More to the story' Interestingly, researchers found a parallel between ...

The advance — made to that poster child for hard-to-solve computer science quandaries, the “traveling salesman” problem — was too minuscule to have any immediate practical significance ...

Thousands of notoriously difficult problems in computer science are actually the same ... of added motivation the next time you struggle to schedule your vacation trip or crack a Sudoku puzzle.

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Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science ... Although the problem has been building for years, a recent ...