Artificial intelligence  Riders on a swarm   See article
Readers' comments    Very interesting article! These kinds of AI
algorithms, biologically-inspired, are getting more and more
famous.  There are a lot of successful applications of Ant
Colony Optimization. For example, they are being used for
balancing the assembly lines at Nissan (  Adam Morgan  The
traveling salesman problem is NP-Hard (you know, hard to solve).
A point missing in this article is the inverse relationship
between processing speed and price. Without such, the algorithms
and statistical probability models discussed in this article
would be restricted to those who could afford to do the
processing.  A point that highlights this best is mobile phone
technology. The mathematical ideas, of wireless phones and cell
towers, were articulated and clearly developed in the 1940s (at
Bell Labs). Until, however, processing speed become relatively
cheap, and humans weren't required to do the quick and
complicated switching, it was impossible to impl