Researchers at Cornell University have developed an electronic chip that they describe as a "microwave brain." The simplified ...

The analog computer of decades-gone-by is something many of us younger engineers never got the chance to experience first hand. It’s pretty much a case of reading about them on these fine pages ...

Explore the resurgence of analog computing and its potential impact on AI and our daily lives. This video examines how analog technology, once overshadowed by digital systems, is regaining ...

We have to wonder, if digital computers didn’t work out, what the state of the art would be today in analog computing. After all, we had an analog laptop in 1959. Sort of.

I felt compelled to investigate further. For an example of how digital has displaced analog, look at photography. In a pre-digital camera, continuous variations in light created chemical reactions ...

Here is another little analog computer example. Instead of the 100-kΩ resistor going from the summing point of A4 to the output of A3, we could have a 50-kΩ resistor going to the tap of a 50-kΩ ...

WHY ANALOGUE? The essential idea of these analogue devices, Goldhaber-Gordon said, is to build a kind of hardware analogy to the problem you want to solve, rather than writing some computer code for a ...

A slide rule is another example. Although special-purpose, complex analog computers are built, almost all computers are digital. Digital methods provide programming flexibility. See digital computer.