Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed a research breakthrough as the company unveiled an analog optical computer built with ...

A Microsoft analog optical computer has solved two optimization problems and shown potential for AI workloads using less energy.

Back in 1968, a book titled “How to Build a Working Digital Computer” claimed that the sufficiently dedicated reader could assemble their own functioning computer at home using easily ...

The Gendered History of Human Computers It’s ironic that women today must fight for equality in Silicon Valley. After all, their math skills helped launch the digital age ...

Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear?

Back in 1968, a book titled “How to Build a Working Digital Computer” claimed that the sufficiently dedicated reader could assemble their own functioning computer at home using easily ...

Unlike digital computers that crunch information in binary, the AOC embodies computations in physical systems. This avoids ...

This article is a history of the digital computer art and animation developed and created at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1962-1968. Still and animated images in two dimensions and in ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...