But shuttling data between the processor and memory eats up time and energy, particularly for data-hungry artificial-intelligence (ai) models. An analysis by Amir Gholami and colleagues at the ...

When old tech dies, it usually stays dead. No one expects rotary phones or adding machines to come crawling back from oblivion. Floppy diskettes, VHS tapes, cathode-ray tubes—they shall rest in peace.

A team of engineers has proven that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can complete complex, scientific computing tasks while bypassing the limitations of digital computing. A team of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I joined Creative Strategies in 1981, I was initially to ...

Introducing the early digital / Thomas Haigh -- Inventing an analog past and a digital future in computing / Ronald R. Kline -- Forgotten machines : the need for a new master narrative / Doron Swade - ...

The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past. If the future of computing is anything like its past, then its trajectory will depend on things that have little to do with ...

You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them. Computing today is almost entirely digital. The vast informational catacombs of the internet, the ...

The current computing curriculum is so focused on programming skills that other essential digital skills are left by the wayside, according to a report by the Subject Choice, Attainment and ...

ZDNET explores immersive computing and a related but different technology called digital twins. Immersive computing has many different names and acronyms, including VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented ...