Fruit Flies Making Inroads on Autonomous Computing

Jucius Maximus writes "The configuration of base stations in cell phone networks has always been problematic because you can never predict how many phones will connect to which base station. And sometimes adjacent antennas will use the same frequency leading to dropped calls. Such configuration challenges may have solutions in autonomous computing. An article on C|NET describes how British Telecom is examining the development of fruit flies, hoping that nature has already found the solution to this problem. This technology could also be applied to 'threat-sensing' on computer networks."

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Offtopic (sorta) Humor

[dbarron]

The solution is to just train fruit flies (instead of carrier pigeon) to carry the messages. Forget the radiation causing cell phones and switches, use Drosophila, nature has the solution.
Only things is...your message recepient must be in the same room with you...and have a banana in his pocket.

huh?

[Joe the Lesser]

'British Telecom is examining the development of fruit flies, hoping that nature has already found the solution to this problem.'

AT&T has also joined the fray, though it has chosen the hippopotamus as it's bringer of change, and Verizon is leaning toward the studying Brazilians due to their high amounts of energy.

BT seems to have a thing about insects

[flossie]

Remember how BT used smart ants to solve the travelling salesman problem?

There seems to be a trend here.

But, I thought...

[zaren]

the whole point was to REMOVE bugs from the system...

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