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Several students have recently been struggling with sudoku number puzzles, so senior Inna I. Zakharevich ’06 wrote a computer program that solves them instead.
Zakharevich’s program, featured on her website (www.people.harvard.edu/~zakharev), has two parts. The part that a user sees is a display of white boxes, controlled by a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script, that organizes numbers in a sudoku grid. Another program, written in a computer language called Objective...
“I thought, ‘This is silly. I’m doing this algorithmic thing that a computer could do,’” said Zakharevich. “And then, I wondered, ‘Why not write a computer program to do...
And so today, when we no longer play eye-to-eye at all, when we click-and-drag hands instead of shaking them, and when we worry more about computer hackers than card Houdinis, what then happens to the poker face?
Relationships rarely follow formulas and conversation cannot be calculated, but online poker does provide some numeric guarantees—a little Cesar’s Palace, a lot of probability. Patiently playing these odds has become appealing to many, and the anonymity of a computer site seems comfortingly secure. Yes...