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HANDOUTS
Science
- R. Krulwich, Ants That Count!, NPR, Nov. 25, 2009.
- R. Krulwich, 'Hey I'm Dead!' The Story Of The Very Lively Ant, NPR, April 1, 2009.
- N. Greenfieldboyce, Serotonin Boost Turns Locusts Into Social Swarms, NPR, Jan. 29, 2009.
- Bees can be trained to count: study, The Age, October 26, 2008.
- Edward O. Wilson, Karl Marx was right, it is just that he had the wrong species, Harvard University, March 27, 1997.
- Charles Choi, Last Ant Standing, ScienceNOW Daily News, Sept. 23, 2008.
- Bird flocks react like chorus lines, New York Times, July 31, 1984.
- J. Gleick, New appreciation of the complexity in a flock of
birds,
New York Times, Nov. 24, 1987.
- E.O. Wilson, Ants and Ecosystems
- Peter Miller, Swarm behavior, National Geographic Magazine, July 2007.
- 'Living plugs' smooth ant journey, BBC News, May 26, 2007.
- Bjorn Carey, When ants go marching, they count their steps, LiveScience, June 29, 2006.
- Sara Goudarzi, Why locusts swarm: new study finds 'tipping point', LiveScience, June 1, 2006.
- Corey Binns, Why ants rule the world, LiveScience, May 8, 2006.
- Bjorn Carey, Ant school: the first formal classroom found in nature, LiveScience, January 11, 2006.
- Ker Than, How ants navigate, LiveScience, November 16, 2005.
- Michael Schirber, Dancing bees speak in code, LiveScience, May 27, 2005.
- Robert R. Britt, Amazing ants ambush prey from foxholes, LiveScience, April 20, 2005.
- Bjorn Carey, Why insects swarm, and the gory endings of loners, February 27, 2005.
- Michael Schirber, Follow the leader: democracy in herd mentality, LiveScience, February 8, 2005.
- Robin Lloyd, Amazing ants 'fly' when they fall, LiveScience, February 5, 2005.
- S. Franklin, Coordination without communication.
- Ant "supercolony" in Europe raises questions about getting along, National Geographic Today, April 23, 2002.
- Ant supercolony dominates Europe, BBC News, April 16, 2002.
Applications
- Riders on a swarm, The Economist, August 12, 2010.
- Surfdaddy Orca, Darwin's Robots, h+ Magazine, October 5, 2009.
- First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking, Technology Review, March 19, 2009.
- Jason Palmer, Smart future for swarming robots, BBC.
- Bryn Nelson, Honeybee waggle dance inspires system for Internet-hosting company, MSNBC, Dec. 16, 2007.
- MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm", MIT News, July 25, 2007.
- Tom Simonite, Robot swarms 'evolve' effective communication, New Scientist, February 23, 2007.
- Swarming the shelves: how shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales, The Economist, November 9, 2006.
- Tom Simonite, Robot swarm works together to shift heavy objects, New Scientist, October 17, 2006.
- Bill Christensen, New software tracks swarms of insects or robots, LiveScience, September 30, 2006.
- D. Story, Swarm intelligence: an interview with Eric Bonabeau, Feb. 2003. Presentation slides.
- T. Krink, Presentation on swarm intelligence, 2001.
- E. Bonabeau and G. Theraulaz, "Swarm smarts", Scientific American, March 2000.
- E. Bonabeau, Swarm intelligence: a presentation.
- G. Di Caro, Swarm intelligence notes, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Videos: ants on bridge, termites follow pheromone.
- E. Bonabeau, Biological and economic networks, May 1999.
- M. Ward, "There's an ant in my phone", New Scientist, January 24, 1998.
- T. White, Swarm intelligence: a gentle introduction with applications, August 1997.
- E. Geake, "How simple ants can sort out BT's complex nets", New Scientist, March 5, 1994.
- A. Perez-Uribe, Collective and swarm intelligence in natural and artificial systems.
- S. Lipperts, Swarming intelligence: mobile agents for network management.
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