"These problems are called NP-hard, which means it is very unlikely there is an efficient algorithm to solve them. When the problem is big enough, we can only hope to achieve some suboptimal ...

A new algorithm efficiently ... While the problem may seem abstract, it’s a prominent example of a strange class of puzzles that computers have trouble solving despite being able to quickly ...

For example ... allow others to solve similar problems. The team are now expanding Foldit’s scripting language to allow the players to come up with even more sophisticated algorithms.

In mathematical terms, this means finding the right quantum algorithms ... techniques to solve optimization problems. Electronics manufacturer OTI Lumionics, for example, has been using QUBO ...