Why Ant Foraging is like TCP(engineering.stanford.edu)

54 pointsby mkopinsky14 yıl önce8 comments

engineering.stanford.edu

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

8 comments

xtacy14 yıl önce

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

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.)

heydenberk14 yıl önce

FWIW, this is a much more accurate title.

malkia14 yıl önce

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).

barbs14 yıl önce

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

automagical14 yıl önce

Evbn14 yıl önce

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.

mahmud14 yıl önce

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