thinkbeta.com » thinkbeta http://thinkbeta.com/blog entrepreneurship Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Digital Ants http://thinkbeta.com/blog/2010/03/04/digital-ants/ http://thinkbeta.com/blog/2010/03/04/digital-ants/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:49:09 +0000 admin http://thinkbeta.com/blog/?p=1448 Ants are great insects with many traits that may be engineered into hardware and software for us humans. See video below of how they build their own raft out of themselves when threatened by floods for instance. More recently, researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PPNL), have applied ant swarming tendencies to a new breed of anti-virus software for computers. You can read a short article about this novel approach here from which the graphic at left was obtained.

And in preparation for Hal Kirkwood from MEL being in MJIS1001 next T/Th [NOT the Learning Lab in Krannert as was previously announced, but regular classroom]  you should take a look at the SpicyNode he’s working on here: Hank

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From Fast Company

Bill Gates recently spoke at TED about how the world needs to attack reduction in CO2. As the tagline from TED suggests, his ideas are worth spreading. His 27+ minute presentation is embedded below. For my ENTR200 students, you might note he slipped in several “you knows.” Even the richest “guy” on planet earth is not perfect :-) Hank

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