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February 25, 2004
Thursday 26th
[copy and paste from matt]
WHEN : Tomorrow (Thursday), 5:30 PM
WHERE : SE 14
WHAT : C.G. Johnson speaking on "Swarm Intelligence"
WHY : Because it's cool stuff in computer science
Even though I messed up his time slot a few weeks back, Collin has agreed
to reschedule and present to the CSCS group this week on the topic of
swarm intelligence. This is the study of systems where many agents, often
dumb as rocks when left on their own, work together in ways that cause
useful behavior to "emerge" when thousands or millions of agents are
working together.
CSCS is open to anyone and everyone; if the topic sounds interesting,
please come along for the talk. It will last around 45 mintues, and be
followed with some open-ended discussion on the topic and (to a lesser or
greater degree) how it relates to the current project going on in CSCS.
Get there or die trying,
Matt
PS -
If you want to read a quick overview on the topic, you might look at
http://dsp.jpl.nasa.gov/members/payman/swarm/sciam/
which is a scan of an article written in 2000 from the magazine "Nature".
Posted by rwatkins at February 25, 2004 09:03 PM