Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet'

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Submission + - Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet' (stanford.edu)

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stoilis

on Monday August 27, 2012 @02:32AM

stoilis writes: "A collaboration between Deborah Gordon, a Stanford ant biologist, and Balaji Prabhakar, a computer scientist, has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants, as they forage for food, mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.

The work is published in the Aug. 23 issue of PLoS Computational Biology."

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