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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

Now called the Antikythera Mechanism, it is widely considered to be the world’s first analog computer, tracking time and astronomical events through gearwork and pointers.

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.