Yet another new paper from the prodigiously productive Andy Adamatzky: “Slimy Hairs: Hair Sensors Made With Slime Mould,” Andrew Adamatzky, arXiv:1306.2935, June 13, 2013. The paper explains: “Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell visible by unaided eye. We design a slime mould implementation of a tactile hair, where the slime mould responds to […]
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Ig Nobel winners on display in Hakodate July 1
Two of the most eloquent Ig Nobel Prize winners will give free public talks at Future University Hakodate, Japan, on July 1, starting at 6:30 pm: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, winner of two Ig Nobel Prizes for his (and his colleagues’) various experiments with slime mold Koji Tsukada, co-inventor of the SpeechJammer, a machine that disrupts a person’s […]
Andy’s Further International Slime Mold Adventures
Andy Adamatzky, some of whose activities we have chronicled*, has issued three new slime mold action-adventure reports: “Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany,” Andrew Adamatzky, Theresa Schubert, arXiv:1209.3474, September 16, 2012. “The World’s Colonisation and Trade Routes Formation as Imitated by Slime Mould,” Andrew Adamatzky, arXiv:1209.3958 , September 18, 2012. “Route […]
Are motorways rational from slime mould’s point of view?
Andy Adamatzky, an innovative writer of scientific reports [see our report about one of his earlier works], has joined with collaborators from many nations to do a new report about the apparently intelligent behavior of slime molds. He has published several papers that derive from the (double!) Ig Nobel Prize winning research of Toshiyuki Nakagaki and […]