problem genome

Problem Genome · Classroom

Find a problem worth a semester

A guided way into vetted unsolved problems from research literature, agencies, standards bodies, and expert discourse — the ones a student team could actually move in a term. Tell us what you're into and how far you want to push, and we'll surface a short list. Every problem here has been through a six-layer fact-check; we show you how confident we are. Prefer to browse every problem as a drawn card? Open the drawer →

What are you into? pick any — or none for everything

What kind of hard do you like? the binding constraint

How far should your team get in a semester?

Which workbenches do you want to work at? the systems the problem engages — optional, skip if unsure

Confidence: high = Tier-1 source (a primary expert source — the agency's own report, the paper itself), fully fact-checked · medium = Tier-2/3 source (analyst, conference, or community source), fact-checked · needs sourcing = flagged for deeper sourcing — help us source this. The dot's size is its tier; a dashed dot needs sourcing. Structural cousins are problems in other fields that share this one's deep structure — the cross-domain link the genome is built to reveal.