Why Ant Foraging is like TCP

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet?v=1

by mkopinsky • 14 years ago

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xtacy• 14 years ago

Earlier discussion on the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4433142

mkopinsky• 14 years ago

Oops. Be it known that I was not the one who added the ?v=1 to the end of the link to avoid the dupe detector. (I did, however, steal this link straight from /r/technology though.)

heydenberk• 14 years ago

FWIW, this is a much more accurate title.

malkia• 14 years ago

Prior-art :) - Just kiddin, as TCP is not patented as far as I know... but if it happened to be - would've that come as prior-art... coming from the ants?

(But then one have to prove that ants did that from long time ago, and did not actually learned by reverse engineering our backbones).

automagical• 14 years ago

barbs• 14 years ago

Also similar, the protocol used in Jason Rohrer's MUTE peer-to-peer network: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml

Evbn• 14 years ago

This is not news. There were talks on swarm intelligence when I was in college over a decade ago, and it wasn't new then, either.

mahmud• 14 years ago

yep. Ant-protocols have been studied to death. Not sure what is new here.

Why Ant Foraging is like TCP

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