CSSE 413: Day 25

Outline

• Cellular automata
• Swarm Intelligence

Materials

• Game of Life
• SciAm article on the Game of Life.
• Game of life applet
• Swarm Intelligence
• Flocking behavior paper
• Steering behavior applets.
• Panic behavior
• Boid applet.
• Ant applet

Assignments

• Day 27, BC: Read the article Total Recall. Based on this article, think about the feasibility of neural implants and write a paper about 3/4 page long in which you discuss the feasibility of neural implants. Feel free to address technical issues that may arise and how one may be able to overcome them, if possible.

Additional Materials

• Ray Kurzweil
• Predictions Kurzweil made
• Kurzweil's website
• Brain implants
• Brain chip implant
• More on brain chip implants
• Implants in the medical setting
• Eye implants
• Robots controlled by rat brain
• An interesting follow-up article on Cyborgs