From: gknauth@BBN.COM Subject: Professor cracks Rubik's cube mystery > From: Andy Lee Professor cracks Rubik's cube mystery LOS ANGELES (May 27, 1997 5:43 p.m. EDT) - A University of California computer science professor has solved the long-standing mystery of Rubik's cube, university officials said Tuesday. Richard Korf found a way to line up the colored squares of the cube in an average 18 moves and a maximum of 20, officials said without explaining exactly how it is done. Rubik's cube, launched in the 1970s by the Hungarian Erno Rubik, became a worldwide phenomenon, with people spending hours trying to manipulate it into color-coordinated rows. Korf is due to reveal his method at a national conference on artifical intelligence July 28 in Providence, Rhode Island. Copyright 1997 Nando.net, Agence France-Presse ----- End of forwarded messages