Microsoft Research has built a prototype computer that doesn’t rely on electrons zipping through silicon but on beams of light. The machine, called an analog optical computer (AOC), is designed to ...

Microsoft has built a prototype computer that uses light and analog signals instead of traditional binary computing. The system, developed in Cambridge, U.K., is designed to handle optimization tasks ...

Joseph Friedman, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, uses a probe station to test small neuromorphic devices. Friedman has developed a ...