Know what? Try typing ‘kilobot’ really fast and the resulting misspell will most likely result in ‘killbot.’ Too ominous for comfort, boys and girls! Anyway, since earlier posts have established that human civilization is on the fast track toward a bright future equal parts Blade Runner, Terminator, and Star Trek it comes as no surprise that more than a few bright minds are working on insect like robotic behavior.
Language: English
69 Min | 1280 x 720 | x264 - 975Kbps | 23.976fps | AAC - 48.0KHz | 499 MB Genre: Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Our world is threatened with an imminent invasion from a swarming alien menace. And there is only one hero brave enough, smart enough and tough enough to fight back - Ben Tennyson!
Language: English
59 Min | 704 x 400 | XviD - 1560Kbps | 25.000fps | ACC - 192Kbps | 744 MB Genre: Documentary
In the first program we saw how animal swarms collide with our world. This time the intelligence behind such mass invasions is explored. When swarms gather, they generate a mysterious swarm intelligence, communicating and learning in amazing ways.
Bees hold commitee meetings to discuss new nesting sites, flocks of quelea learn from each other where to find the best food, fire ants even use their own bodies to form a raft and escape when their nest is destroyed by floods.
All unite as one and act like a giant organism controlled by a single brain. One newly discovered swarm may even use its united strength to save the planet from the greenhouse effect! The superorganism can accomplish far more than the sum of its parts.
As in program 1, real-life footage combined with state of the art high-speed camera techniques shows the complexity of the superorganism, and how this intelligent being affects us and the planet.
Language: English
59 Min | 704 x 400 | XviD - 1560Kbps | 25.000fps | ACC - 192Kbps | 744 MB Genre: Documentary
Thousands of killer bees invade a football pitch, millions of mice wipe out a harvest, huge fish shoals leaping into boats …animals can reach such immense numbers that they take over our lives. From the outside these superswarms are the stuff of nightmares, but from the inside they’re things of beauty.
Mayflies by the trillion invade a mid-west city for one night only, locust swarms destroy crops as they invade by both land and air, ferocious driver ant swarms invade an east african village, high above Rome 10 million starlings perform incredible aerial displays as they come in to roost.
Swarm ventures into the very heart of these amazing natural phenomena. Incredible high-speed shots from inside swarms reveals how they view our world. Real-life footage from TV cameras, mobile phones and camcorders relives the moment when swarms invade our lives.
Platform: PC Release: 2010 Publisher: VALVe Software Developer: VALVe Software Genre: Action / Arcade / 3D / Top-down Language: English Size: 903 MB (FileSonic+FileServe+UserShare)
Description: A new shooter from Valve will like every admirer of the genre. In it the gamer a huge arsenal of 40 weapons and lots of classes with unique characteristics. Smart people enjoy co-op mode for four. Users can boast about their achievements and statistics. Included with the draft the player will receive a special editor to create your own maps. New Alien Swarm appeared several years ago as a modification for the shooter Unreal Tournament 2004. Valve Company has decided to take the developers under his wing and helped make the expansion pack in a full-fledged project. Authors Alien Swarm involved in creating games in the series Left 4 Dead and Portal puzzles 2.
April 2011 was the most violent month of tornados on record, and the deadliest in modern times. The ‘super outbreak’ of April 26-27 alone involved more than a hundred separate twisters, killing over 300 people and cutting a swath of destruction across the south. Using dozens of amateur and professional sources, Witness tells the story of this once-in-a-century event, as captured by those who lived through it.
This documentary reveals the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms, discovering what happens when superswarms invade people's lives and, using the latest camera techniques, going to the heart of the swarm to reveal how the creatures therein view our world.Real-life footage from camcorders and mobile phones captures the amazing impact they can have. Killer bees mount an attack on an international football match in Costa Rica; in the US the Illinois River boils with leaping silver carp, an alien species that has hijacked the river, smashing into boats and injuring people.In South Australia a sea of mice raids farms, consuming and destroying in their millions on a scale that defies belief. The largest swarm on Earth erupts from Lake Victoria: trillions of flies blanket villages but the locals have learnt to turn the swarm into a highly nutritious fly burger. In Rome, cameras fly alongside ten million starlings, the largest swarm in Europe. Their mesmeric waves stop many residents in their tracks, but as they roost they smother the city in tons of excrement. One man has learnt to control the ultimate swarm. He has become their 'queen bee' with startling results, learning to control what most people fear and to understand one of the most incredible forces of nature.
Innovations in Swarm Intelligence by Chee Peng Lim, Lakhmi C. Jain, Satchidananda Dehuri
Publisher: Springer | ISBN 10: 3642042244 | 2009 | PDF | 256 pages | 8.4 MB
Over the past two decades, swarm intelligence has emerged as a powerful approach to solving optimization as well as other complex problems. Swarm intelligence models are inspired by social behaviours of simple agents interacting among themselves as well as with the environment, e.g., flocking of birds, schooling of fish, foraging of bees and ants. The collective behaviours that emerge out of the interactions at the colony level are useful in achieving complex goals.
MKV | 340MB | 1h 9mn | 640x352 | 23.976 fps | AAC 604 Kbps |
Language : English + Subtitles : English Genres: Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
The film opens as Ben (Ryan Kelley), Gwen (Galadriel Stineman), and Kevin (Nathan Keyes) are negotiating with a group of black market dealers, who are attempting to sell them alien nanotechnology. One of them reveals herself to be Elena (Alyssa Diaz), a childhood friend of Ben and Gwen and a fellow Plumber's kid. Elena explains that she had set up the negotiations to lure Ben out into the open, and explains that her father has been abducted and that she needs their help to find him.
National Geographic Witness Tornado Swarm (2011) HDTV XviD-DiVERGE
Language: English
0:44:58 | 624 x 352 | PAL (29,97fps) | XVID 950kbps | MP3 - 128kbps | 349 MB Genre: Documentary
April 2011 was the most violent month of tornados on record, and the deadliest in modern times. The 'super outbreak' of April 26-27 alone involved more than a hundred separate twisters, killing over 300 people and cutting a swath of destruction across the south. Using dozens of amateur and professional sources, Witness tells the story of this once-in-a-century event, as captured by those who lived through it.
National Geographic Witness Tornado Swarm (2011) 720p HDTV x264-DiVERGE
Language: English
0:44:58 | 1280 x 720 | PAL (25fps) | avc1 MKV 3091kbps | AC3 - 384kbps | 1,1 GB Genre: Documentary
April 2011 was the most violent month of tornados on record, and the deadliest in modern times. The 'super outbreak' of April 26-27 alone involved more than a hundred separate twisters, killing over 300 people and cutting a swath of destruction across the south. Using dozens of amateur and professional sources, Witness tells the story of this once-in-a-century event, as captured by those who lived through it.
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Uploadstation,FSN,FSV)
O..rd U-ity Press, USA | 1999 | ISBN: 0195131592 | 320 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science.
Language: English
59 mins per eposide | 704 x 400| PAL (25fps) | XVID 1762kbps| MP3 - 192kbps | 1.45 GB Genre: TVseries | Documentary
This documentary reveals the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms, discovering what happens when superswarms invade people's lives and, using the latest camera techniques, going to the heart of the swarm to reveal how the creatures therein view our world.
Swarm Robotics
Springer | March 14, 2005 | ISBN-10: 3540242961 | 175 pages | PDF | 5.03 MB
Swarm robotics can be defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be constructed to collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single one. Unlike other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence, while keeping in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized sensing ability, scalable communication mechanisms, and the exploration of decentralized control strategies.
Yuhui Shi, Meng-Hiot Lim, and Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, "Handbook of Swarm Intelligence: Concepts, Principles and Applications"
Spr inger | 2011 | ISBN: 3642173896 | 544 pages | PDF | 15,8 MB
From nature, we observe swarming behavior in the form of ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, swarming of bacteria, and many more. It is only in recent years that researchers have taken notice of such natural swarming systems as culmination of some form of innate collective intelligence, albeit swarm intelligence (SI) - a metaphor that inspires a myriad of computational problem-solving techniques. In computational intelligence, swarm-like algorithms have been successfully applied to solve many real-world problems in engineering and sciences. This handbook volume serves as a useful foundational as well as consolidatory state-of-art collection of articles in the field from various researchers around the globe. It has a rich collection of contributions pertaining to the theoretical and empirical study of single and multi-objective variants of swarm intelligence based algorithms like particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA), honey bee social foraging algorithms, and harmony search (HS). With chapters describing various applications of SI techniques in real-world engineering problems, this handbook can be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners, giving an in-depth flavor of what SI is capable of achieving.
