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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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  1. well the fruit flies have already... by 56ker · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    come up with the noise the phone makes when it rings. :)

  2. Re:Offtopic (sorta) Humor by hettb · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's NOT DROSOPHILA! It's DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER!

    Actually, it's

    Drosophila melanogaster

    The the genus' first letter is capitalized, and the whole name should be in italics.