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Submission + - Videogame designs military strategies based on ant (programmica.info)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09, 2009 @11:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: A researcher of the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial videogame.

Feed The Register: Spanish Army builds ant-colony AI conquistador algorithm (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday November 09, 2009 @08:32AM

Iberian insect intelligence to plan 'actual strategy'

Spanish computer researchers and army officers say they have developed an algorithm based on the behaviour of ant colonies which can plot "the best path" through battlefields for manoeuvring troops. The general-ware has apparently been tested in a "mini-simulator" developed by modifying the computer game Panzer General.

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Feed Science Daily: New Computer Simulator Helps Design Military Strategies Based On Ants' Movements (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Friday November 06, 2009 @12:12PM

Researchers in Spain have designed a system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield following the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move. The scientists have used settings of Panzer General, a commercial war video game, for the development of this software.

Comment Doing Evolutionary Algorithms in the browser (Score 1) 188

by jmerelo on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @05:11AM (#27062121) Attached to: Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser

We published a paper that did evolutionary algorithms in the browser some time ago: Browser-based distributed evolutionary computation: performance and scaling behavior. In the same conference, there was another paper: Unwitting distributed genetic programming via asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Submission + - Google introduces Gmail Paper

Submitted by

digitaldruid

on Sunday April 01, 2007 @04:32AM

digitaldruid writes: "Gmail starts today a free service that allows you to request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button. They will cover costs "with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations". The number of messages is unlimited, but don't worry about environment because "Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment"."

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