Technology has delivered groundbreaking advances in recent decades—from life-saving medical treatments to the everyday convenience of carrying a powerful computer in a pocket. Yet despite the rapid ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

When I first started working with multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems, they felt like something out of science fiction. It’s a group of autonomous digital entities that negotiate, share context, ...