In a world where sensor networking and location tracking technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, preserving privacy is an increasingly difficult challenge. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder have addressed the problem with a way to set up networks of tiny sensors that allows users to gain useful traffic statistics but preserves privacy by cloaking location information for any given individual.
Drawing heavily on the biology of insects and bacteria, researchers from Humboldt University in Germany have devised a way for electronic agents to efficiently assemble a network without relying on a central plan.
The Internet was designed to be so decentralized that it could survive a nuclear attack. But economic considerations are driving today's commercial Net toward a hub-and-spoke configuration, making it more vulnerable to catastrophic failures. A study lays out just how the chips would fall.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have shown they can take advantage of these viral strong points by harnessing billions of the phages to build useful materials molecule-by-molecule.
A group of Boston researchers have taken advantage of the human genome project, which is mapping the exact sequence of base pairs in human DNA, to form a new strategy for finding invading bacteria and viruses.
Researchers from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Russia have shown that purposeful behavior, or motivation can emerge naturally in a software simulation that has simple software beings, or agents, evolving over many generations.