July 2003
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Swarm Intellegence
[reposted from Darwin, July 2003 issue, courtesy of the Wayback Machine]
At last: The socialization of the enterprise leads to intelligence rising to the top. IN 1999, I WROTE a piece about Abuzz, a then-newly funded start-up that had developed a fascinating expertise management solution. The product was called BeeHive, and was based on insights about emergent behavior in groups that grew...
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Swarm Intellegence and Bonabeau
[Reposted from Get Real, from 9 July 2003]
Reading an interview of Eric Bonabeau (Icosystems founder and CTO) by Derrick Story regarding Bonabeau research into social insects, and the applicability of swarm intelligence to human concerns. (Pointer from Dan Williams).
A great comment from Bonabeau regarding the reluctance of business management to accept the notion of bottom-up, emergent...