“…The decrease of the exponent of MM implies theoretical acceleration of the solution of a number of important problems in various areas of computations in Algebra and Computer Science, such as Boolean MM, computation of paths and distances in graphs, parsing context-free grammars, the solution of a nonsingular linear system of equations, computations of the inverse, determinant, characteristic and minimal polynomials, and various factorizations of a matrix. See [142], [34], [1, Sections 6.3-6.6], [24, pages 49-51], [18, Chapter 2], [3], [79], [48], [98], [160], [157], [158], [159], [86], [25], [89], [6], [54], [156], [132], [96], [4], [138], [140], [103], [104], [105], [125], and the bibliography therein and notice that some new important applications have been found very recently, e.g., in 4 papers at ISSAC 2016.…”