On September 3, Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK announced that its team has successfully built a novel Analog Optical Computer (AOC) using Micro LED light sources, optical lenses, and a smartphone camera sensor. The research result was published in the latest issue of Nature and is expected to enable breakthroughs in financial settlement, medical imaging, and artificial intelligence. Unlike conventional digital computers that rely on binary logic, the AOC performs computation through optical physical processes, helping bypass some bottlenecks of digital co...