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Fruit Flies Inspire Scientists to Optimize Computer Networks
The fruit fly has evolved a method for positioning its tiny, hair-like structures used to feel and hear the world that's so efficient, that a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon University says it could be copied to more effectively deploy wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing applications.
January 19, 2011