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Image via CrunchBaseGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is currently up 1% in stock value, after opening higher this morning.

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SOU students turning love of video games into lucrative careers

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Students who may have been scolded by their parents for spending too much time playing video games are turning their passion into promising careers, thanks to more universities offering degrees in video game design and development.

The Entertainment Software Association reported last week that 300 American colleges and universities are offering courses and degrees in video game design, development, programming and art this academic year, a nearly 20 percent increase over last year.

Southern Oregon University has been ahead of the curve, offering such courses since 2005.

“When I first started doing this, people thought it was a joke,” said Greg Pleva, chairman of SOU’s Computer Science department who teaches three courses in game programming as part of a computer science degree program. “It’s certainly becoming more acceptable by schools.”

Pleva’s classes expose students to all aspects of creating a game, from story lines and character development to design and coding.

“It’s one of the most difficult things a programmer can do,” said Pleva, who was a student at SOU in 1992 and began working there in 1996.

The classes begin with basic tools and work up to complex graphics.

The students begin with a blank background and build their own worlds, including movement, sound effects, even music. Each assignment has requirements, such as waterfalls or cloud movement, that must be included in the game.

“This is an artistic area for people to play with,” Pleva said.

The elective classes draw a variety of students, because the only requirement is one class of programming. Some students from other departments, such as math and science, are common, but Pleva sees art and digital media students as well.

He said that video games have many applications, from medical training and advancement to educational games.

Pleva has a collection of finished projects from students, and each one is unique, he said. He hopes to show them to the rest of the school during the Southern Oregon Arts and Research presentations at SOU in the spring.

Two New Degrees Offered at U of T

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The University of Toronto will be offering two new masters programs this September. The Master of Global Affairs at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Master of Science in Applied Computing at the Department of Computer Science come in response to a growing demand for professional and applied postgraduate studies.

The MGA degree at the Munk School seeks to bridge the sectors of government, business and NGO work while addressing the changing landscape of global affairs. The program is directed of Steven Bernstein, previously director of the Master of Arts in International Relations program.

“We purposely called it a Master in Global Affairs instead of International Relations not because states are irrelevant, but because we want people to recognize that this old model is just one way the world is interacting,” says Bernstein. “It grew out of student demand for a degree where they could develop applied skills in addition to knowledge which would launch their careers.”

The program seeks to bridge the sectors of government, business and NGO work and features a mandatory internship component, where overseas placement is stressed.

“James Orbinski is one of the stories of this degree,” says Bernstein, referencing former president of Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and current cross-appointed faculty at the Munk School. “He told us that when he was in Rwanda as a medical professional, he didn’t understand the political forces leading to the problems.”

In only two months after the program’s inception, applicants have already expressed a high interest. The selective program admits 40 students from among a large pool of applicants. According to Bernstein, most applicants are undergraduates from a social sciences background, but around 10 per cent have been already working overseas, in government or are law, business, and engineering postgraduates.

“We were [...] happy to get MBA grads who had terrific skills in management but not necessarily the cultural and political knowledge to act globally,” says Bernstein. “Our vision is that our graduates would be innovators who will take leadership positions in any of the three sectors.”

Across campus the Department of Computer Science has established the Master of Science in Applied Computing, another new professional degree. Known for being highly research-intensive at the postgraduate level, the department also saw a strong student demand for professional experience as opposed to purely research-based projects.

“After doing extensive outreach, we came to a programme that plays to our particular strengths: research in aid of technology transfer to industry,” states M.Sc. of Applied Computing program director Eugene Fiume.

Along with taking the program specific graduate level courses students in the program also take courses in communications and business. The professional M.Sc. of Applied Computing also requires internships specifically in transferring technology to industry and the private sector.

“Students will also do internships in industry on well-defined projects that require the deployment of new research results into industry,” notes Dr. Fiume. “To my knowledge, there is no programme like this anywhere.”

The program proved to be highly selective. Only six students were chosen from one hundred and twenty applicants in the inaugural year. Fiume suggests that expanded enrollment may be a possibility in the future.

Professor Peter Stuckey awarded Eureka Prize for computer science

Image via WikipediaA UNIVERSITY professor has won one of the nation's top science prizes for work developing a software platform dubbed a "lazy" problem solver.

Melbourne University’s Peter Stuckey netted the $10,000 award for Innovation in Computer Science at a black-tie dinner in Sydney tonight as part of the 21st annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

Professor Stuckey’s work provides a fast and innovative way of working out the most efficient use of resources. Its real-life applications include creating train timetables, staff rosters or helping with water usage allocation.

Australian Museum director Frank Howarth said the work addressed “extremely important challenges facing decision-makers in all areas”.

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“This innovation is a major technical achievement promising far-reaching benefits to society,” he said.

The development of “lazy clause generation” helps strike the right balance between two separate approaches to problem-solving for these sorts of tasks.

The category’s other finalists included Sydney University’s David Moss for a system of transmit information optically over silicon (CMOS) integrated circuits and Melbourne University’s Cloudbus Project to help “cloud computing”.

The Eureka Prizes, dubbed the "Oscars of Australian science" offer 20 awards and a total prize pool of $190,000.

The Computer Science section, sponsored by Google Australia, is awarded to the team or individual for an innovation in computer science that has the potential to improve the lives of many Australians.

Pure science is new flavour of the season

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At a time when most students opt for engineering or medical courses, demand for pure sciences at the City colleges has seen a surge this year.

St Joseph's college has witnessed a steady increase of students keen on taking up science courses, not just from Karnataka, but from other states. Some of the popular combinations for undergraduate courses this year were Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (PCM); Physics, Electronics, Mathematics (PEM); Electronics, Mathematics, Computer Science (EMC) and the recent addition Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (EMS). The demand has surprised even the college management, which had set a cut-off marks of 60 per cent. "There is more demand for basic science courses like PCM. Close to 30 per cent of students have scored more than 90 per cent in their Class 12 in the new PCM batch have come for admission this time," says Fr Ambrose Pinto S J, Principal of St Joseph's College. To fulfil the demand colleges like Mount Carmel have increased the intake for BSc courses. "Demand for pure science courses at undergraduate level has increased as there are more job opportunities for students now. With revival of economy, companies are hiring graduates and are not particular only about engineering graduates. This has led to the surge in demand," said Sr Albina, Mount Carmel College Principal. Autonomous colleges like Jyothi Nivas have introduced subjects like Computer Science as well as Environmental Science as one of the combinations have also given a boost to the courses. "Though Science is not one of the popular combinations every year, the demand was much higher compared to last year. Our science combinations with Computer Science as one of the optional subjects filled-up very fast," said Sr Elizabeth, Principal In-charge Jyothi Nivas College. Tie-ups with premier research institutes like Indian Institute of Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and ISRO have kept the research quotient high, say students. "There are numerous credit courses like Space and Rocket Dynamics for BSc students. These courses give experience," says Ricky Wilfred, who wants to pursue research in Astronomy. "For a student of Economics, it does not make any sense to study subjects like Sociology and Psychology. At Master's level, we have to study Mathematics and Statistics. If you want to apply for Masters in prestigious college like London School of Economics, you need to have strong foundation in these subjects," says Ashwin Satish, a student from Chennai, studying at Joseph’s.

UNK Today: Computer department hopes to use grant to make name for itself

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KEARNEY — Nebraska might be better known for cattle than computer technology, but the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s computer science and information systems department hopes to make a name for itself nationwide.

“I would love to have a nationally known information technology and information technology education program,” said Sherri Harms, department chair of computer science and information systems at UNK.

The IT program at UNK is the only one of its kind in Nebraska and features the state’s only information technology bachelor of science degree. The department also offers a degree in computer science.

Harms said both programs work to prepare students for careers in computing and information systems. “We really are a catalyst to local businesses being able to function,” Harms said.

The programs feature a variety of classes on computer programming and operating systems. The computer science program focuses on software development, design and maintenance, while the IT program centers around web development, computer security and system administration.

Harms said these skills are taught in hands-on classes covering everything from artificial intelligence to robotics and gaming. “You can’t really learn by watching somebody, you have to try it out. I can’t think of any class where there isn’t some sort of hands-on activity,” Harms said.

Both areas of study are based on the Association of Computing Machinery guidelines. According to Harms, the ACM is an international professional organization that sets curriculum guidelines for computer science programs.

Two years ago, the association identified a separate IT curriculum, which was quickly embraced by UNK.

The department expanded with special projects and funding last year. As part of a Google program, AndroidEDU, the department received 15 Verizon DROID phones. Students will continue to use the phones next year for a variety of projects such as creating applications.

In January, the department applied for Kelly Grant funding and was awarded the endowment in May. Harms said the money will be used for research and projects that span curriculums. She said her department is working with the art and art history department and the physics and multimedia departments.

Senior computer science major Jason Webb said he is excited about the grant and what it means at UNK. Webb said he enjoys the freedom and research opportunities offered on campus.

“I’m doing a lot of independent and directed research,” he said. “There’s so much room for an individual to pursue what they what to work on.”

He said the funding will help continue a multitouch table project, which is a large, flat monitor designed to respond to the user’s contact and movements similar to a touch phone.

The money will also be used for other developments in the department. Webb said some proposed projects include a planetarium projection project in which a projector would be used to display images and information on the exterior of the UNK planetarium.

In addition, he is working on several smaller projects focused on using computer technology in innovative ways. “The whole idea is kind of to bring people outside of the computer and mouse and adapt computers to people, not the other way around,” Webb said.

He also said another focus of these projects is to bring together several different departments at UNK and to showcase the assets of the department.

“We’ve got a lot of students and faculty just now getting involved in collaborations across campus, the arts especially, and we want to kind of get the word out about the newest coolest stuff we have to offer.”

Both Webb and Harms are excited about the future of computer science and information systems at UNK. The department boasts an exclusive program and a bigger budget for the upcoming year, which will help students make the most out of their education at UNK wherever they end up after graduating.

“IT jobs are in demand locally, nationally and around the world,” Harms said.

Computer science breakthrough: The end of P = NP? Researchers claim that one of the great unresolved mathematical questions in theoretical computer sc

Image via WikipediaUltimate period, HP Labs mathematician Vinay Deolalikar started circulating a startling cover that claims to screw resolved the preeminent agaze difficulty in machine study, illustrious as P = NP. Er, more accurately, that P is not same to NP (P ? NP).

If his protracted, multifactorial, multidisciplinary insure holds up, one of the high inharmonious mathematical questions of the 20th century has met its change. And it exclusive took 50 geezerhood or so.

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If you slept through your prefatory CompSci courses, here's the unforesightful type. The P = NP query can be phrased in umteen ways, but the easiest visualisation I've initiate is the subset sum difficulty. Say someone writes book -- integers, both optimistic and counter -- on sticky notes and sticks them on your desk. Can you get a aggregation of sticky notes that sum to nought?

The subset sum problem is a creation illustration of an NP-complete problem: If somebody goes through all of the sticky notes on your desk, pulls out a clump of them, and safekeeping them to you, it's easygoing to see if the sticky notes sum to set. Verifying the bleach is casual. But object the exact set of sticky notes can be really strong.

The P = NP difficulty, at low joining, boils mastered to this: If you can prove the result to a problem pretty apace (in this containerful, add up all the integers and see if they totality zero), can you also make a method for object the solutions that runs pretty quickly (in this housing, a method for discovery zero-sum bunches that doesn't go function when you add writer sticky notes)?

It's a creation difficulty -- numerous moot it to be the rudimentary unresolved job in machine field -- and it has a lengthened chronicle.Few researchers line the difficulty sustain to 1971, when Stephen Fix and Leonid Levin independently came up with a twin systematisation. Investigator Lipton, a P = NP practiced from Sakartvelo Tech, traces the problem bet to a honour from Kurt Gödel to Evangelist von Mathematician (both preeminent mathematicians) in 1956. So, depending on how you tally, computer field folks hit been puzzling over P = NP for 40 or 50 years.

Ten period ago, the Pol Science Institute in City chose P = NP as one of sevener Millenium Reckon Problems and posted a $1 meg bounty for its statement.

I think when P = NP loomed mammoth in educator circles some life ago. One of my thesis advisors told me that he figured whatever streetwise investigator would be competent to support or negate P = NP, presented a twelvemonth off to try. Since then, hundreds -- probably thousands -- of sabbaticals bed exhausted up in vapor disagreeable to succeed the evil young equalization.

Less than a gathering ago, the prestigious "Communications of the ACM" ran a counterbalance article about the job, with galore leads but no expressed solutions, and scarce a glimmer of hope.

We harbour't heard the penultimate of this. It takes quantify to go through a 103-page printing, and more experts rest dubious. If you necessary to analyze along, construe Gumshoe Lipton's journal and, for a indorsement view, Thespian Aaronson's blog.

Player's a disturb incredulous: "I really, really uncertainness that Deolalikar's see instrument standstill. And while I port't studied his agelong, gripping medium and pinpointed the irreparable damage, something bottomless inner me rebels against the word of 'obligation an unstoppered manage,' when longest get with able but ultimately out printing attempts allows me to move perfectly fortunate this is the most electrifying feeling to encounter in computer acience since Alan Turing nailed the halting problem.

Yahoo! Scientists Meet at Science Week to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of Yahoo! Labs

Image via CrunchBaseCharacter!, Inc. convened more than 200 of the complement's scientists to examine trends and questions about the early of the Web at Character! Labs' period Study Hebdomad event.

Yahoo! also prestigious the fifth anniversary of Character! Labs, an unskilled search methodicalness.

"Character! Labs is tackling the largest scientific questions coat the business and Yahoo! - from how to delimitate what's personally important to the trillions of people online, to work what the Web can teach us most ourselves and association," said Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Character!'s primary somebody and occasion of Character! Labs. "I married Character! with the belief that we would be the last surround for inventing the new sciences of the Internet, and in the prehistoric team period that belief has been proven avowedly time and time again. Our scientists lead search at unparalleled shell in the concrete humans."

Formally created in 2005, Yahoo! Labs noted it has expanded globally with offices in the Incorporate States, Collection, Southbound Land, Collection, and the Midsection Eastmost. Scientists at Yahoo! Labs hit prefabricated earthshaking contributions to the industry by producing writer than 1,000 writing, workshops, and presentations for conferences and pedantic journals. Labs scientists somebody won numerous "physiologist paper" awards, including seven in 2009 and four to assort in 2010.

"Character! Labs is a unequaled manual investigate lab which promotes academic-style search that advances the frontiers of study, but wisely focuses on a few areas key to Yahoo!'s job," said Jeannette M. Formation, the presidentship's prof of machine subject and section lead of the computer ability division at Pedagogue Philanthropist Lincoln, and the sometime assistant administrator of the Machine and Entropy Study and Application Board at the Subject Ability Foundation (NSF). "It also engages flat and openly with the pedagogue vocation, providing academics resources to which the community otherwise would not hump accession to. For monition, through a partnership with the General Field Understructure, Yahoo!, along with HP and Intel, through their Unsealed Cloud endeavor, helped wage a gather computer hosted at the Lincoln o

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, and tool learning, Character! Labs has made umpteen contributions to Yahoo! by building bailiwick into the organisation's products and engineering fund. Subject and study teams at Yahoo! continually intensify Character!'s business by analyzing real-world data to provide Character!'s agonistical benefit in a sign of categories, from online publicizing to media, study, and aggregation effort.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011

Image via WikipediaKaspersky Lab is a house defamation for Inhabitant computer users, and Kaspersky routinely releases its new versions in Aggregation various months before they do so in the U.S. Your friends in Madrid or Prag may somebody installed the last version months ago, but for us here in the states Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 ($59.95 through for figure licenses) is brand-new, and it's pretty vantage, too.

Based on user feedback the companion has toned imbibe the somebody port. The primary window utilized to uprise with full-color icons representing dissimilar warrant components. Now it includes fitting a handful of icons-simple one-color silhouettes. I same the new countenance. On the "Security Area" tab you reach panels for polar types of protection. Expanding a panel lets you easily enable, modify, or configure the mortal components. Kaspersky offers the now-expected red/yellow/green position indicator with a fasten to fix any problems. A grasp soul can get much info near any pending actions by clicking the Status tab of the Reports window. Coverall, the UI is piquant and autarkical investigation labs bed nonentity but praise for Kaspersky antivirus subject. Westmost Seacoast Labs and ICSA Labs both endorse it for virus perception and net; Occident Shore gives it additional checkmark certifications including uncovering of Trojans and systemic malware. The most up-to-date Kaspersky study has passed all of the stylish ten VB100 tests by Virus Bulletin, though an sr. fluid tested originally this period didn't quite tidy the tier.

When AV-Test.org ran a special two-month energising imposition try senior year Kaspersky hierarchal in the top tercet for both malware spotting and malware obstruction. The different two top slots in each somebody went to Norton Cyberspace Guard 2010 ($69.99 honorable, ), which took the top reason for perception, and PC Tools Cyberspace Warranty 2010 ($49.95 plainspoken, ), which demonstrated the unsurpassable remotion.

AV-Comparatives.org regularly tests antivirus products, alternating between on-demand tests and proactive non-signature tests. In both the current on-demand essay and the stylish proactive run, Kaspersky scored ADVANCED+, the top notch workable, and in both cases it registered few false positives. AV-Comparatives ran their own energizing security check worst year; Norton and Kaspersky were the only products to attain ADVANCED+ in that experimentation. Kaspersky also scored ADVANCED+ in a show trial, lower awesome considering over 60 proportionality of the products proven achieved this top success.

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I did run into one status where Kaspersky deadlocked with a pesky malware sample. Kaspersky perceived it and offered to run a special disinfection picture followed by a revive. However, on reboot it prefabricated the comparable give again and again, ad nauseam. The Delivery CD didn't service, scanning in Safe Norm didn't exploit, and this fighting of the Titans rendered the try grouping nigh unusable.

Kaspersky's brilliant built-in concord came to the deliverance. On advice from a proof school, I overturned on tracing and generated a log enter. I then victimised a built-in way to create a scheme province estimate, and I ran a Kaspersky-supplied means titled GetSystemInfo. After analyzing the resulting data the school supplied a lucre book. When I fed the script into the built-in validation way, it wiped out the malware, breaking the stalemate. Cheer! Mention that U.S.-based sound and smoldering confabulation sustain is liberate for all Kaspersky users.

Dell Agrees to Purchase Data-Storage Provider 3Par for About $1.15 Billion

Image via WikipediaHollow Inc., the world's third-largest personal-computer concern, united to buy 3Par Inc. for virtually $1.15 1000000000000, gaining equipment and software to reinforce its growing organized data-center sector.

3Par investors present get $18 a acquire in payment, Dell said in a evidence today. That's nigh threefold the stock's closing toll of $9.65 on Aug. 13. 3Par, supported in Explorer, Calif., makes instrumentation and software for reducing data-storage requirements.

Holler is hunting to vie with companies much as Hewlett- Packard Co. and International Enterprise Machines Corp. in the market for statesman interwoven machine systems and profession services that perish higher profits than screen and laptop PCs. Hollow said in June that it plans to somebody the size of its data-center and technology-services acting in object finished acquisitions.

"The 3Par acquisition gives Holler the necessary arrows in its movement to manoeuvre up competition in drive bailiwick," said Ashok Kumar, an psychiatrist at Rodman & Renshaw LLC in New Royalty.

3Par, which had declined 19 percent this year before today, roseate $8.23, or 85 proportionality, to $17.88 at 9:31 a.m. on the New York Hold Commerce. Dell, supported in Habitude Stuff, Texas, pass 19 cents to $11.82 on the Nasdaq Stockpile Market.

Dell bought EqualLogic Inc. in 2007 for $1.4 1000000000 as the support for its data-storage content. Last month, Hollow united to buy tight held store visitor Ocarina Networks for an undisclosed terms. The PC concern also agreed to get server-computer Scalent Systems Inc. that month.

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Holler has a top seek to challenge rivals by allowing 3Par to record operating by itself, without too clinched combination with Dell's existing businesses, Kumar said. So far, the execution of whatever of Dell's acquisitions has fallen "way victimize," he said.

"If Dell's hands-off and treats 3Par as a standalone acquisition, then they make a realistic propulsion to be a competitor in the outlet," he said.

Income at Dell's store acting accumulated near 4 proportion to $554 million in the honours tail. The performing accounts for active 4 percent of numerate sales.

Rivals are also racing to discolor their enterprise-technology businesses through acquisitions. Diviner Corp., the world's second-biggest software business, bought Sun Microsystems Inc. for nearly $7.3 1000000000 to increase into constituent, and HP bought 3Com Corp., a businessperson of networking fund, for $2.7 1000000000 this twelvemonth.

Dell hired IBM's top dealmaker Painter Lexicologist net period to improve counseling the company's acquisition strategy. In 2009, Dell bought Perot Systems Firm. for almost $3.6 1000000000000, evaluation the maximal purchase in its 25-year chronicle. Honcho Executive Seaman Archangel Holler said unalterable twelvemonth the reserves would sustain to be "fairly active" in making acquisitions.

Image via CrunchBaseIt sounds equivalent Google is in the net stages of talks to adopt Same.com. The technology beingness eyed up by Google is visible activity - the remnants of a complement that misused to hunt for group by grappling called Riya.

Like TechCrunch says, the thought down the acquisition isn't quite remove - it doesn't truly fit with the added past acquisitions (in the multiethnic character) Google has prefab in the last few months.

If the stack goes finished, $100 million testament buy them a pretty coercive visual seek engine, but Google's already been excavation on one of their own. If you fuck an Android manoeuvre, you should be healthy to download Google Goggles - a visible see engine created by Google.

Internet era pits spies against technology

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  "What is accomplishment on is this dandified saltation we go through when countries conceive their sovereignty is being threatened by new technology," said Saint Rasch, for nine life chief of US Section of Adjudicator machine crimes discord. "Governments are real primed to deploy technology that invades seclusion, but privacy-enhancing technologies puddle them troubled."
  
  Warranty experts put the row over BlackBerry cryptography capabilities in the discourse of decades of skirmishing on the warrant implications of net and field profession -- a engagement that also touches services much as Google's Discover messaging scheme and Skype's telephony and video services.
  
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  In the most high-profile framing this period, BlackBerry business Research in Motion said on Weekday it foreseen to avert a threatened shutdown by India of nucleus features of the smartphone because of assets worries.
  
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  The Asiatic ultimatum came after Arabian Arabia delayed a BlackBerry ban, as the blimpish Islamic state according move in finding its warrantee concerns. The UAE, yet, has said it gift ban BlackBerry courier, telecommunicate and web browsing services from Oct 11 for instrument reasons.
  
  Umteen governments, including the US, had info dealing that could be impeded by engineering using whatsoever merciful of cryptography, said Gospel Bumgarner, gaffer engineering functionary at the non-profit US Cyber Consequences Object. They feared "profession much as BlackBerry, Google Break, or Skype" artificial their cognition to distinguish terrorist transaction.
  
  

Computer scientist Vinay Deolalikar claims to have solved maths riddle of P vs NP

Vinay Deolalikar, who works at the research arm of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California, believes he has solved the riddle of P vs NP in a move that could transform mankind’s use of computers as well as earn him a $1m (£650,000) prize.

P vs NP is one of the seven millennium problems set out by the Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematical Institute as being the “most difficult” to solve.

Many mathematical calculations involve checking such a large number of possible solutions that they are beyond the current capability of any computer. However, the answers to some are quick and easy to verify as correct. P vs NP considers if there is a way of arriving at the answers to the calculations more quickly in the first place.

Mr Deolalikar claims to have proven that P, which refers to problems whose solutions are easy to find and verify, is not the same as NP, which refers to problems whose solutions are almost impossible to find but easy to verify.

His paper, posted online on Friday, is now being peer-reviewed by computer scientists.

Scott Aaronson, associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is so sceptical that he pledged on his blog to pay Mr Deolalikar an additional $200,000 (£125,000) if the solution is accepted by Clay.

He wrote that he could barely afford the sum, but explained: “If P≠NP has indeed been proved, my life will change so dramatically that having to pay $200,000 will be the least of it.”

The P vs NP problem was formalised in 1971 by mathematicians Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin.

To help understand the issue, the Clay Mathematical Institute gives an example in calculating how to accommodate 400 students in 100 university rooms.

It says: “To complicate matters, the Dean has provided you with a list of pairs of incompatible students, and requested that no pair from this list appear in your final choice.

“This is an example of what computer scientists call an NP-problem, since it is easy to check if a given choice of one hundred students proposed by a co-worker is satisfactory (i.e., no pair taken from your co-worker's list also appears on the list from the Dean's office), however the task of generating such a list from scratch seems to be so hard as to be completely impractical.

“Indeed, the total number of ways of choosing one hundred students from the four hundred applicants is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe.

“Thus no future civilisation could ever hope to build a supercomputer capable of solving the problem by brute force; that is, by checking every possible combination of 100 students.

“However, this apparent difficulty may only reflect the lack of ingenuity of your programmer. In fact, one of the outstanding problems in computer science is determining whether questions exist whose answer can be quickly checked, but which require an impossibly long time to solve by any direct procedure.”

We prospect you human heard most Asus Bamboo playoff notebooks that were introduced inalterable assemblage. Now Asus has introduced new U43Jc Bamboo p

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