53 min listen
Swarm in Here... or Is It Just Me?
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Aug 22, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
ENCORE An ant … can’t … move a rubber tree plant… but the colony can. As a group, ants are an efficient, organized, can-do bunch. And a model for humans trying to manage complex systems.
Find out about the eerie collective intelligence of animals, and how an MIT researcher is hoping to put humans to work collaboratively to solve problems like climate change.
Also … hear how research into flocking behavior helps Hollywood film a herd of stampeding dinosaurs.
Guests:
Steve Strogatz - Applied mathematician at Cornell University and author of Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Craig Reynolds - Senior researcher for Sony Computer Entertainment
Thomas Malone - Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT
Iain Couzin - Biologist at Princeton University
Descripción en español
Originally aired June 21, 2010
Find out about the eerie collective intelligence of animals, and how an MIT researcher is hoping to put humans to work collaboratively to solve problems like climate change.
Also … hear how research into flocking behavior helps Hollywood film a herd of stampeding dinosaurs.
Guests:
Steve Strogatz - Applied mathematician at Cornell University and author of Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Craig Reynolds - Senior researcher for Sony Computer Entertainment
Thomas Malone - Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT
Iain Couzin - Biologist at Princeton University
Descripción en español
Originally aired June 21, 2010
Released:
Aug 22, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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