task
activity that is planned to be or should be accomplished
Petersberg tasks
United Nations Security Council resolution
work order
task or job for a customer
exercise
training unit in mathematics
challenge
invitation to measure oneself against others, to confront them in a competition
Manhattan Project
World War 2 American R&D program that produced the first nuclear weapons
chess problem
problem made with chess
two-body problem
to determine the motion of two point particles that interact only with each other
three-body problem
classical mechanics problem of three massive point particles interacting via Newtonian gravity; special case of the 𝑛‐body problem for 𝑛=3
quest
journey to fullfill a task, used mainly as plot device in mythology and fiction
dining philosophers problem
problem used to illustrate synchronization issues and techniques for resolving them
optimization problem
problems involving the selection of an optimal element from sets of available alternatives
quest for the historical Jesus
academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus
coursework
work performed by students or trainees for the purpose of learning
falling cat problem
observation that cats are able to right themselves when falling inverted using a non-obvious source of angular momentum
mission
a specific task with which a person or a group is charged, i.e. military mission, rescue mission, diplomatic mission, moon landing mission
Zebra Puzzle
well-known logic puzzle
n-back
continuous performance task
Fermi problem
estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or approximation
cigarette smokers problem
concurrency problem posed in 1971 by S. Patil
schoolwork
type of work in school
homework
form of school work assigned to be completed out of class
dividing a circle into areas
problem in geometry
housekeeping
management of household chores
job
computational task
Byzantine fault
Fault in a computer system that presents different symptoms to different observers
responsibility
task
quest / mission
task in video games that a player-controlled character may complete to gain a reward and/or progress the story
developmental tasks
normatively defined tasks in the development process of a person
task
unit of executable work in computing
building insulation
protection of buildings against heat transfers
object categorization from image search
the problem of training a classifier to recognize categories of objects, using only the images retrieved automatically with an Internet search engine
Parsons problem
exercise type in computer programming