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SUMMARY:Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Eshel Ben-Jacob\, Tel Aviv University\nHosted by: And
	rei Ruckenstein\n\nPart of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.\
	n\nAbstract:\nBacteria\, the first and most fundamental of all organisms\, 
	lead rich social life in complex hierarchical communities. Collectively\, t
	hey gather information from the environment\, learn from past experience\, 
	and take decisions. Bacteria do not store genetically all the information r
	equired for efficient responding to all possible environmental conditions. 
	To solve the new encountered problems (challenges) posed by the environment
	\, they first asses the problem via collective sensing\, recall stored info
	rmation of past experience and then execute distributed information process
	ing by the 109-12 bacteria using sophisticated communication strategies to 
	link the intracellular computation networks of each bacterium (including si
	gnaling path ways of billions of molecules) into a network of networks. I w
	ill show illuminating movies of swarming intelligence of live bacteria in w
	hich they solve optimization problems that are beyond what we\, human being
	\, can solve with our most powerful computers. This will lead me to a discu
	ssion about the special nature of bacteria computational principles.
LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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