Why should anyone pay $200,000 for solving Rubik’s Cube in 26 moves?
Credit: Popular Science Blog
The U.S. National Science Foundation supports this project becaue of it’s relevance for problems of search and enumeration. And scientists from the Northeastern University have completed the mission.
In times of highly increasing amounts of data search interests will at least stay very important. So the question concerning Rubik’s Cube is whether we have reached the optimum. The answer is no. In regard to UCLA professor Richard Korf it should be possible to reach 18 moves. So search scientists are still confronted with a task. And we can hope that such efforts will improve our search processes in future.
