Optical logical operations have sparked major interest in the past decades since it can enable many applications, particularly those involving high-throughput and on-the-fly data processing such as ...

A soft material performs NAND logic with visible light, showing a path toward materials that process information without conventional electronic circuitry. “This project has been part of my scientific ...

Simulating computer logic: NIST researchers simulated computer logic operations in a saline solution with a graphene membrane (grey) containing oxygen-lined pores (red) that can trap potassium ions ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

An operation that analyzes one or more inputs and generates a particular output based on a set of rules. See AND-OR-NOT and Boolean logic. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

The ability to make decisions distinguishes robots from basic machines. Most robots are wired with electronic circuits for decision making, a convention that has developed into a sophisticated art ...