Creating a new type of computing that’s ‘naturally probabilistic’ Note to journalists: A high-resolution illustration conveying a probabilistic computer is available via Google Drive. For copies of the research papers, please contact Kayla Wiles, Purdue News Service, at wiles5@purdue.edu or 765-494-2432. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. Purdue University researchers are building a probabilistic computer that could bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing to more efficiently solve problems in areas such as drug research, encryption and cybersecurity, financial services, data analysis and supply chain logistics. (Illustration by Gwen Keraval) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?” said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981.