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Flocking birds inspire information organisation Here is plenty of evidence that Stefen Wolfram was on to something with his book "A new kind of science". Apprehending reality in the fog of permanent change through the recognition of patterns... that in turn are indicating us some more fundamental laws not seen through vision and reason... in the NewScientist.com news service by Tom Simonite """ In the age of the internet, there is so much information flying around it can be hard to sort through it all. Now a system that organises information by mimicking the way birds of the same species flock together could help. Web feed tools such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS) automatically alert a user when new information is added to a favourite website. This provides automatic updates when fresh news stories are posted to a site or when new scientific papers are added to a journal, for example. But making sense of all these automatic updates can be a lengthy process. So Xiaohui Cui and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US, developed a feed-organising system based on flocks of virtual birds. The system uses a modified version of the software that creates animations of birds in movies and video games. """ URL: Flocking birds inspire information organisation
