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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams by Mitchel Resnick - ISBN: 9780262680936
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This text examines the concept of decentralization and its effects in everday culture. It considers the reasons behind resistance to decentralization, and describes computational methods - such as modelling and simulation - and activities that can help develop new perspectives on decentralization.

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds

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    184 pages

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    22 January 1997

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Summary

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 (…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262680936
ISBN-10:0262680939
Author:Mitchel Resnick
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:184
Edition:New edition
Release Date:22 January 1997
Weight:272g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 10mm
Series:Complex Adaptive Systems
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“Mitchel Resnick’s book is one of the very few in the field ofcomputing with an interdisciplinary discourse that can reach beyondthe technical community to philsophers, psychologists, and historiansand sociologists of science.” Sherry Turkle , Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About The Author

Mitchel Resnick

Mitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab.His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world’s largest coding platform for kids. He has worked closely with the LEGO company on educational ideas and products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, and he cofounded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of after-school learning centers for youth from low-income communities.

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