Wednesday, December 12, 2001
SWARM LOGIC HELPS US NAVIGATE THE STREETS
"Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic -- put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street."
--Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001
"Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic -- put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street."
--Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001
