Increasingly fast computers have given us an impression of great advancement in computing technologies. Yet, the computer has literally remained unchanged ever since its creation in the 40s to certain computer scientists. According to Prof. Yao Chi-Chih Andrew, the winner of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award (2000), an award that is widely regarded as the Nobel Prize of computing, although modern computers (or classical computers) have been doing their tasks with considerable improvement in speed, they still rely on basic binary logic as a basis of their computations as they have always been since their first conception. Theoretical computing, one of the specialties of Prof. Yao, is a discipline that tries to bring fundamental breakthrough to computing by studying the very foundations of computation. In time, it may bring us new computers that will completely redefine our notion of computing.

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