A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. This “sensitivity” conjecture has ...

Project ReMind is a first-person, story-driven puzzle-adventure game that tasks players with exploring surreal environments ...

Professor Uehara from JAIST works at the intersection of theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and the art of solving puzzles. His research strives to understand the computational ...

As millions of fans discover Sudoku, these puzzles are appearing in magazines, newspapers, and books across the globe. Sudoku Epic lets you create and solve Sudoku puzzles on your computer.

Word puzzles may go the way of chess and Jeopardy! next weekend at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.

The number of humans who can write a better puzzle than the top databases is small and dwindling. New constructors who come into the field are likely to use computer assistance right off the bat.

Imagine millions of jigsaw puzzle pieces scattered across a football field, with too few people and too little time available to assemble the picture. Scientists in the new but fast-growing field of ...

Scientists in the fast-growing field of computational genomics are getting lots of data but lack the computer power needed to analyze it quickly.