Some problems take millions of years to solve, yet their answers can be checked instantly. This paradox sits at the heart of the most important unsolved question in computer science, and the entire ...

One question in computer science has stood above the rest for decades, resisting every attempt to settle it despite its enormous implications. At the center of the mystery is a deceptively simple idea ...

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Computer scientists have long used vector addition systems to model how certain programs work, but they didn’t have a full understanding of how complicated they could be. Recent work has finally ...