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  1. Summary and reviews of The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    Book Summary. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a ...

  2. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can

    The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done ... This volume is an informal, highly accessible summary of how different forms of coordination among multiple animals can inspire both computational and social actions by humans. Interested readers ...

  3. 10 Lesson from the Smart Swarm

    Miller identifies four major principles of smart swarms: self-organization, diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration, and adaptive mimicking. Here are ten points I took from his discussion of the four principles: Decentralized control: For self-organization to produce worthwhile results - like, for example, the Linux operating system or ...

  4. The Smart Swarm

    A fascinating new take on collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding on solving our own problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. This lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces ...

  5. 'Smart Swarm': Working together in smart groups

    Peter Miller, author of "The Smart Swarm," is a senior writer at National Geographic. He sees the mounds as a kind of self-organization like Wikipedia, the encyclopedia to which almost anyone can contribute and that counts on its millions of users to correct and amplify the texts it receives. Five years ago, CIA officials founded a system ...

  6. Book Review: The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    The Smart Swarm takes an in-depth look at Ants, Honeybees, Termites, Flocks of Birds, Schools of Fish, Herds of Caribou, and so forth. By studying, analyzing, and understanding the simple governing rules used by these various creatures, computer scientists have written computer programs that can solve complex problems and streamline things from ...

  7. Book Review: The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    The Smart Swarm takes an in-depth look at Ants, Honeybees, Termites, Flocks of Birds, Schools of Fish, Herds of Caribou, and so forth. By studying, analyzing, and understanding the simple governing rules used by these various creatures, computer scientists have written computer programs that can solve complex problems and streamline things from ...

  8. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can

    A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of the authors' most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding of the real experts on solving their own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication ...

  9. Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    Summary of Smart Swarm by Peter Miller. Smart Swarm by Peter Miller is a comprehensive exploration of the collective intelligence and decision-making abilities of groups, focusing primarily on animal swarms and their relevance to human society. The book delves into the fascinating world of swarm behavior, highlighting the remarkable ways in ...

  10. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can

    What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex ...

  11. An Excerpt from The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    The above is an excerpt from the book The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done by Peter Miller. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has been proofread, occasional errors may appear due ...

  12. The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    A fascinating new take on collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding on solving our own problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. This lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces ...

  13. The Smart Swarm

    What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex ...

  14. Review of "Smart Swarm" by Peter Miller

    Smart Swarm is a book about decision-making. Fund management is all about decision-making. Hence this book is about fund management. Indeed financial examples crop up several times. Executive summary Smart Swarm: Using animal behavior to change our world is interesting because it: describes many extraordinary decisions of animals. suggests a number of lessons that can

  15. Book Review: The Smart Swarm

    The Smart Swarm points us in the right direction. This wasn't clear to me at first, because each chapter in the book is so rich with examples and diverse stories that I had could only ruminate the book's deeper implications after stepping away from it for a while. It's a challenge to pick through and grasp everything.

  16. Smart swarm : Miller, Peter, 1949- : Free Download, Borrow, and

    Based on extensive globe-trotting research, this lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes and termites, used in recent studies for climate-control solutions.

  17. The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller

    The behavior of animal swarms, schools and colonies holds lessons for technology and design. THE SMART SWARM BY PETER MILLER Avery Press, 2010, 336 p., $20.

  18. The Smart Swarm

    What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach about communication, organization, and decision-making. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarmers. A fascinating new take on collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The ...

  19. How Does Intelligent Swarming Work?

    In his book The Smart Swarm, Peter Miller indicates three mechanisms of a smart swarm: decentralized control, distributed problem solving, and multiple interactions. Although Miller's swarms are derived from nature (ants, bees, fish, and so on), we also see these mechanisms in an Intelligent Swarm: knowledge workers working together to solve ...

  20. The Smart Swarm

    ABSTRACT. What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and ...

  21. PDF Summary of The Smart

    Smart Swarm," he held a distinguished tenure at National Geographic, contributing as both a senior editor and writer, where he developed a penchant for exploring interdisciplinary themes that blend nature, science, and human society. Miller's expertise in synthesizing wide-ranging research into compelling narratives illuminates

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