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,Continue
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- English Books
- Paperback 184 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0262680939
- ISBN-13: 9780262680936
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Pub date: Jan 10, 1997
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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Bram Lankreijer 
A quick read, unassumingly written. I really like the things Resnick has to say about the "centralized mindset" and how to combat it through education that employs playful computer simulations.
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