WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?” said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981.

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard problems, such as optimization or integer factorization tasks, more ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a scaled-up version of a probabilistic computer ...

Storage, computation, and communication are the three pillars of modern information technology, with computation being the central aspect. The von Neumann architecture, based on the Turing machine ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today’s classical computers aren’t fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging ...

Kerem Çamsari receives a highly competitive junior faculty award from the Office of Naval Research to build a probabilistic computer Kerem Çamsari, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s ...

Amelia Pang is a journalist and an editor at EdTech: Focus on Higher Education. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Sunday Review, among other publications.

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tohoku University and the University of California, Santa Barbara have shown a proof-of-concept of energy-efficient computer compatible with current artificial ...

The phenomenal success of our integrated circuits managed to obscure an awkward fact: they're not always the best way to solve problems. The features of modern computers—binary operations, separated ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today's classical computers aren't fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging ...