Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of Illinois and technology companies pouring ...

Analog computers, computing systems that represent data as continuous physical quantities, such as voltage, frequency or ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a ...

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

Microsoft Research has built a prototype computer that doesn’t rely on electrons zipping through silicon but on beams of light. The machine, called an analog optical computer (AOC), is designed to ...

Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology's capabilities. The AOC harnesses ...

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...

Microsoft's Analog Optical Computer (AOC) demonstrates potential in solving optimization problems and AI workloads, offering a promising future for energy-efficient computing. Microsoft's Analog ...

According to Satya Nadella, a breakthrough in analog optical computing has been published in Nature, highlighting new methods to solve complex real-world problems with significantly greater efficiency ...

Picture a calm, flat ocean dotted with countless buoys. A few start bobbing, rippling the glassy water. Suddenly, clusters of buoys begin jumping and splashing back down in unison, sending out waves.