Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds - Brossura

Resnick, Mitchel

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ISBN 10: 0262680939 ISBN 13: 9780262680936

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0262680939
• ISBN 13: 9780262680936
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184