Most elegant: The Perceptron algorithm. Developed back in the 50s by Rosenblatt and colleagues, this extremely simple algorithm can be viewed as the foundation for some of the most successful ...

A team of Italian researchers successfully ran a perceptron algorithm on a real, working quantum computer using IBM's cloud-access Q Experience system.

The machine was called the ‘Mark I Perceptron’. It was designed for image recognition and had a camera linked to 20×20 cadmium sulfide photocells to make a 400-pixel image randomly connected to the ...