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Mould Intelligence: Computation with Slime MouldSoichiro Tsuda -- University of the West of England BristolA plasmodium of true slime mould Physarum Polycephalum shows various kinds of interesting behaviour, such as multiple cell fusion,autonomous contraction oscillation, and optimised network formation,even though it is just a single-cell organism. The talk will give abrief overview of research on the "primitive intelligence" of this natural swarm intelligence system and how this organism can be usedfor information processing.Soichiro Tsuda

• Release Date

  Oct 21, 2010

• Runtime

  52:53