Thursday, April 16, 2009
From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
"By studying army ants — as well as birds, fish, locusts and other swarming animals — Dr. Couzin and his colleagues are starting to discover simple rules that allow swarms to work so well. Those rules allow thousands of relatively simple animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism." Full Story @ New York Times
Labels: collective behavior, collective intelligence, Swarms
