Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2024, scientists from the University of Glasgow leveraged statistical methods like Bayesian analysis—as well as techniques developed to study ...

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs just put up a post on the giant mechanical binary computer they brought to last month’s Maker Faire. As a faithful reproduction of the Digi-Comp II from the 1960s, ...

Abstract: Analog computing has been recently revived due to its potential for energy-efficient and highly parallel computations. In this two-part paper, we explore analog computers that linearly ...

‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a transparent ...

The growth and impact of artificial intelligence are limited by the power and energy that it takes to train machine learning models. So how are researchers working to improve computing efficiency to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and combinatorial optimization drive applications across science and industry, but their increasing energy demands challenge the sustainability of digital computing. Most ...

Why the Future of AI & Computers Will Be Analog explores the resurgence of analog computing as a powerful and speedy alternative to digital systems that have dominated the tech landscape. The video ...

Researchers at RIT have improved the electronics used in communication and radar systems to better process signals using electromagnetic radio waves. This breakthrough could advance computing ...

A technical paper titled “Analog Foundation Models” was published by IBM Research– Zurich, ETH Zurich, IBM Research-Almaden, and IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Find the technical paper here. published ...