Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)
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Book Description
How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems--and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.
About the Author
Mitchel Resnick is Associate Professor in the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems),Mitchel Resnick,The MIT Press,0262680939,Cognitive Psychology,Computer Books: General,Computer Science,Computer-Aided Instruction (General),Computers,Data Processing - Parallel Processing,Neuropsychology,Parallel Processing,Psychology,Computers / Computer Science
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