Four years ago, the mathematician Maria Chudnovsky faced an all-too-common predicament: how to seat 120 wedding guests, some of whom did not get along, at a dozen or so conflict-free tables. Luckily, ...

Have you ever tried to do the brainteaser below, where you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've ...

constraint satisfaction problems, or CSPs for short, are a flexible approach to searching that have proven useful in many AI-style problems CSPs can be used to solve problems such as graph-coloring: ...