Analog computers are suitable for measuring data that they cannot translate into numbers or codes. However, due to the wide range of complications involved, analog computers have been largely ...

The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on the analog Analytical Engine in the 1830s.

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 enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for. Now ...

Archaeology & History A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer Researchers have uncovered surprising insights into the Antikythera mechanism.

Generations of researchers have unraveled many mysteries about the device, which is often described as the world’s first analog computer, though much remains unknown.

Understanding the Fundamentals of Analog Computing How Analog Computing Differs from Digital Analog computing stands apart ...

The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid ...

Microsoft has built a prototype computer that uses light and analog signals instead of traditional binary computing.

Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the development of AI accelerators.

Microsoft has built an analog optical computer that uses light instead of silicon, promising 100x gains in speed and ...