Solving the Unsolvable.

The article discusses the notion of unsolvability in computer science. A theorem by mathematicians Alonzo Church and Alan Turing proved that no algorithm exists for checking the validity of logical formulas. A 2011 paper by Byron Cook, Andreas Podelski, and Andrey Rybalchenko describes how terminati...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 5 - 6
Main Author: Vardi, Moshe Y.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2011
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