If one were to stumble upon the thought of ancient technology, it would be hard to think of anything as advanced as the ...

What if the next big technology was actually a pretty old technology? The first computers ever built were analog, and a ...

In 1901 a device called the Antikythera Mechanism was found in a shipwreck, and after extensive study, it was determined that it was an analog computer that was at least 2000 years old. This is a ...

A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer. ... Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, ...

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.

To demonstrate the power of analog quantum computation using their new Quantum Simulator platform, the researchers first studied a simple circuit comprising two quantum components coupled together.

While the first computers were mechanical and famously ran on vacuum tubes, there were other schools of thought that introduced a different kind of computer – one that ran on water. In the 1930s ...

Likewise, we won’t see old analog computers in data centers anytime soon. They were monstrous beasts: ... The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos.