'Dream team' to tackle profound questions in computer science

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Tue, 08/19/2008 - 22:00

(Princeton University, Engineering School) Princeton University is the lead institution for a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant that will fund research on "intractability" -- a concept that has profound implications for a broad range of fields, from e-commerce to quantum computing.

Members of the research team have contributed to some of the biggest discoveries in the field of intractability in the past decade.

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