Cook explains why P=NP matters.

Stephen Cook, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, explains why the question of whether P=NP is so important. This clip taken from an interview conducted with Cook by Bruce Kapron for the ACM on February 25, 2016. Video of the full interview is available as part of Cook’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/cook_n991950.cfm.