Physics and Astronomy News Archive: May 2011

Speeding swarms of sensor robots

Source: MIT Posted: 5/8/11

A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.

'The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poets, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.'

Godfrey Hardy
(1877-1947)