Right! The Arizona ants have become expert maze runners by negotiating three different mazes. This gives them a decided advantage when faced with an unknown maze. Return to article
The M.I.T. ants 2
Right! The M.I.T. ants cut their teeth (pincers?) against this maze. They have it memorized and could run through it with one antennae tied behind their backs. Return to article
The M.I.T. ants
Wrong! The M.I.T. ants became experts at running their maze. They have no experience against new mazes. Return to article
Artificial Intelligence, Software Systems and The Concept of Ant Hills
As many of you know, I am deeply involved in artificial intelligence research. In 1995, a friend related a story he had read in a book about artificial life. Let me relate that story to you as I remembered it at the time. [The punch line here is that when I read the book myself […]
The Reynolds Number, Modeling and Osborne Reynolds
Who Was Osborne Reynolds? What Was He Modeling? In my research I came across the work of Osborne Reynolds, a 19th century English physicist and engineer whose area of interest was “turbulence” (fluid mechanics). In 1883 Reynolds, by experimenting with pipes of varying sizes, was able to come up with a number, (now known as […]