As David Patterson observed in 1980, “A RISC potentially gains in speed merely from a simpler design.” Patterson’s principle of simplicity underpins a new alternative to speculation: A deterministic, ...

R esearchers at FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in the Netherlands have developed a new type of soft, flexible material that can perform complex calculations, much like ...

An elastic metamaterial can do math by directing motion through tiny pathways, showing how materials might one day handle simple computing tasks without electronics.

In a nutshell, multitasking scatters attention; having a focused and reliable system restores it. When we clear the noise and ...

Analog computers are systems that perform computations by manipulating physical quantities such as electrical current, that ...