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

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

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, ...

Researchers from New Zealand have restored the very first recording ever made of computer generated music. The three simple melodies, laid down in 1951, were generated by a machine built by the ...

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 ...

We might not think of analog computers as having existed in the 1500s, but in fact the astrolabe first appeared around 220 BC. However, as you might expect only a few very old ones still exist. Ear… ...

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.

These analog quantum simulators are designed to solve problems that even the fastest, most efficient digital quantum computers can’t. But we aren’t talking about room-sized computers like you ...