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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams by Mitchel Resnick

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds

By Mitchel Resnick

By Mitchel Resnick

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Part of Complex Adaptive Systems

Category: Technology

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Jan 22, 1997 | ISBN 9780262680936

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams by Mitchel Resnick
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About Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

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.

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Category: Technology

Paperback | $35.00
Published by Bradford Books
Jan 22, 1997 | 184 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262680936

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