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AWS stimule le développement d’applications mobiles avec les bibliothèques Amplify

Le géant du cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) a étendu sa famille Amplify d’outils / services cloud pour développer des applications mobiles avec de nouvelles bibliothèques spécifiques à iOS et Android.

le

AWS Amplify  service, qui était

introduit  il y a quelques années, fonctionne comme un back-end…

At the insect workshop I did the other week with Emily MacLeod at the High Park Nature Centre, she recommended a few books on insect behaviour and biology and identification.  Here they are for my reference.

Insects of Eastern North America, by Steve Marshall

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation, by Olivia Judson

Ants at Work, by Deborah Gordon  (reminder to watch her TED talks)

Solitary Wasps: Behaviour and Natural History, by Kevin O'Neill

A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.

By Bjorn Carey

On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. The researchers are calling it the "anternet."

Deborah Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford, has been studying ants for more than 20 years. When she figured out how the harvester ant colonies she had been observing in Arizona decided when to send out more ants to get food, she called across campus to Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford and an expert on how files are transferred on a computer network. At first he didn't see any overlap between his and Gordon's work, but inspiration would soon strike.

"The next day it occurred to me, 'Oh wait, this is almost the same as how [Internet] protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file!'" Prabhakar said. "The algorithm the ants were using to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that used in the Transmission Control Protocol."

"The next day it occurred to me, 'Oh wait, this is almost the same as how [Internet] protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file!'" Prabhakar said. "The algorithm the ants were using to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that used in the Transmission Control Protocol."

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