December 19, 2003
Anthill File-Sharing

Tired of those pesky lawsuits just for sharing the latest Christina Aguilera CD with a few million of your closest friends? You need to check out MUTE.

“Ants display collectively intelligent behavior when foraging for food or fighting off predators. Each ant in the colony acts in a rather simple way, but together they end up doing something clever, like discovering the shortest path between their ant hill and a food source. MUTE’s routing mechanism is inspired by ant behavior.”

Iiiiiinteresting… [Seen on Slashdot]

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz at December 19, 2003
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