Word: simant
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Harvard is full of experts, in fact--including the world's leading authority on ants, Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson. Wilson recently received his second Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, a gigantic volume that served as a basis for the computer game SimAnt. His popular Core course, "Evolutionary Biology," Contains a large unit on ant social behavior...
...purpose of SimAnt is to teach players about life in an ant colony, according to Wright. SimAnt's manualdiscusses the history, communication and socialbehavior of ants...
Lester L. Ward '93 says that SimAnt "achievesits goal in terms of educating people...
Wright says that ants' property of collective intelligence has made them the "mascots" of artificial life, a branch of computer science which simulates biological systems. Wright drew on artificial life concepts and techniques when developing SimAnt...
Both Ward and Krishnaswamy say they havemanaged to take over the backyard and drive thehumans out of their home--a SimAnt "victory...