While digital computers have become entrenched in our daily lives, a new analog quantum computer offers a stark contrast in both its design and capabilities. A team of physicists from Stanford ...

Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light to solve complex problems.

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more ...

Engineers have reached a theoretical limit for efficiently converting analog data into digital bits in an emerging computer technology. The future of computing may be analog. The digital design of our ...

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

The prototype is built from commercially available parts, including micro-LEDs, optical lenses, and sensors from smartphone ...

As requested by readers, editor Andy Turudic demonstrates that it’s child’s play to set up an Analog Computer to compute a Lorenz Attractor. Anabrid’s THAT Analog Computer provides a flexible, ...

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

Analogue Computing hits the road as editor Andy Turudic uses THe Analog Thing Analog Laptop Computer to simulate an automobile suspension encountering a pothole. Some of you may have already ...