The Resonant Computing Lab, an Analogue project, is launching initiatives to materialize the principles of the Resonant Computing Manifesto.

The Resonant Computing Lab is working to cultivate a world where technology makes us more human rather than more absent. The Lab is launching three main initiatives:

• Gardens — small groups of 3–10 people tending a single question over a season until something real grows: a framework, a paper, a prototype. The first are forming around Portable Memory and EQ-based evaluation frameworks for AI. Propose a Garden.

• Gatherings — community-hosted dinners, talks, walks, and work nights held anywhere in the world, on the premise that resonance is easier to feel in a room than to describe. Submit a Gathering.

• Resonant Projects — recognition for under-the-radar work that already makes us more human, marked by the Resonance Badge, with small grants in some cases. Nominations are open through June 21.

Across all three, the Lab scouts and supports builders who move with humility and curiosity. Momentum is already visible in the manifesto community: a recent resonance-themed demo night, hosted with interface.click drew 25+ builders.

About the Resonant Computing Lab

The Resonant Computing Lab is an Analogue initiative supporting tools and technologies that improve how we think, perceive, and world-build. It is the institutional vehicle for the Resonant Computing Manifesto. The Lab is directed by Liz Dorman and Carson Levine.

resonantcomputinglab.com

Funding inquiries: carson@analoguegroup.org · liz@analoguegroup.org · aish@analoguegroup.org

The Analogue Group wishes to congratulate our collaborator Seconds for their recent publication in Reason. They are working with the Research Revival Fund to translate Soviet-era academic literature into English, bringing a corpus of pre-1980s scientific work finally into the English-language scientific record. Their ChinaRxiv.org project has done the same for Chinese research preprints, at scale.

In their piece for Reason, they use the Sylvain Lesné Alzheimer’s fraud case to illustrate how institutions meant to safeguard scientific integrity — peer review, journal editorial boards, university compliance — are structurally incapable of catching fraud, because the incentives reward publication over truth. They propose open infrastructure as a counterweight: making the full body of human research accessible, translatable, and replicable by independent researchers. We support their work in advocating for open, distributed science.

Read the full article: How a Scientific Cartel Protects Fraudsters and Rakes in Billions of Taxpayer Dollars.

Editor’s note (June 2026): Since publication, the Research Revival Fund has been renamed the Revival Fund.

Resonant Computing Lab is now open. It provides grants, retroactive awards, and commissioned work to independent builders, researchers, and “gardeners” who treat technology as something that shapes environments, which in turn shape us.

The lab offers hands-on resources for builders to create private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, and prosocial software. It operates across what it calls the pace layers: from fast‑moving commerce and fashion down to governance and nature; curating a portfolio of self‑initiated, scouted, and nominated initiatives.

Visit The Resonant Computing Lab at resonantcomputinglab.com.

The Analogue Group is happy to announce the launch of a new, experimental grant program dedicated to reviving neglected, abandoned, or marginalized research across all fields. The fund supports researchers and thinkers who are working to recover, clarify, and re‑activate promising lines of inquiry that have been prematurely dismissed, buried, or otherwise lost.

Research Revival provides grants of 4,000–10,000 USD, with some projects eligible for up to 25,000 USD, to support work such as archival recovery, translation, replication, experimental follow‑up, and creative or speculative forms grounded in rigorous inquiry.

Examples might include rediscovering forgotten Soviet biology, reassessing buried social‑science findings, or reinvestigating abandoned medical or experimental work.

The program, directed by Wendi Yan, is open worldwide to both academic and independent researchers, with no formal credential requirements.

Submit your quest at researchrevival.org.

Editor’s note (June 2026): Since publication, the Research Revival Fund has been renamed the Revival Fund.

Second Renaissance, a project we soft-launched earlier this year, was officially announced today. It’s a living archive of scenius — from Bell Labs to Pixar to Black Mountain College. Kudos for Tasneem Nabi (@TasneemNabi) for making this happen!

Visit Second Renaissance at secondrenaissance.now.

Analogue has been highlighted as a leading example of “crazy philanthropy”: bold, unconventional funding that breaks from traditional institutional constraints.

In The Case for Crazy Philanthropy, the publication argues that modern science funding has become overly bureaucratic, with philanthropy increasingly funneling resources to established universities rather than supporting outsider talent and novel ideas.

Philanthropy can have a much higher impact if it doesn’t just piggyback on existing institutions and ideas. Instead of giving more money to universities that are already sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in endowments, why not give money to the Analogue Group, which tries to find the next Katalin Karikó, or to Convergent Research, which funds an entirely new type of research organization?

In summer 2025, federal funding to UCLA was abruptly suspended mid-cycle, creating an immediate crisis: the university’s Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) lost access to grants already allocated for ongoing research, including those supporting mathematician Terence Tao’s summer salary and his students’ stipends. The suspension was tied to campus issues unrelated to research merit—but the timing was devastating. Tao, already having deferred previously released NSF funds to support graduate students, suddenly had no resources for payroll that week.

The Analogue Group recognized the gap and moved the same day. On August 12, 2025, we announced a $50,000 donation to The UCLA Foundation to bridge the immediate funding crisis and ensure Tao’s work and his team could continue uninterrupted. It was the kind of responsive, rapid support that exists in the gap between institutional failure and research collapse—and it’s precisely the kind of decision The Analogue Group was designed to make.