I recently found an interesting interview of Iain Couzin on Edge.org. Iain Couzin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. His research focuses on understanding collective behaviours. In particular he is interested in how large-scale biological patterns result from the actions and interactions of the individual components of [...]

I recently read the following post by Zyxo on Mixotricha blog about complexity which illustrates one fundamental flaw in many studies of swarm intelligence: the assumption that the subunits in a swarm-intelligent system are necessarily dumb.

Interesting post from Ryan Hollingsworth as guest blogger for LeRon Shults about swarm intelligence. At the end he poses the [...]

Je reproduis ici la lettre au Président de la République de Cédric Foellmi publiée il y a quelques jours sur le site “Sauvons la recherche”. Loin des clichés habituels sur l’intérêt de la recherche fondamentale, ce jeune chercheur, post-doc au laboratoire d’astrophysique de Grenoble, propose un argumentaire original pour défendre le financement de ce type [...]