The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, ...
One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits ...
In a study published in Nature, a team led by Harvard and MIT scientists reported a quantum system with more than 3,000 ...
Almost 25,000 light-years away, two dead stars, each more massive than our Sun, but only 20 kilometers in diameter, orbit one another in less than five hours. This unusual pair of extreme objects, ...
Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light to solve complex problems.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, the great mathematician and pioneer of computer science and binary number calculations. © University of Massachusetts Lowell Binary ...