An Italian researcher with a penchant for retro games -- or perhaps just looking for an excuse to play games in the name of science! -- has used computational complexity theory to decide, once and for ...

It’s OK, you’re old enough to admit it – you stunk at Super Mario Bros. The vaunted “feel” of Mario’s movement had you skidding into Koopas and off of cliffs, and the game eventually made you so ...

Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy. In fact, Amazon has nested, or chained, NP hard problems. Figuring out how to get an item from ...