67596 external_news 1308310532 1475893472 Research into the sometimes coordinated behavior of birds and bees is helping scientists create computer programs that can enhance surveillance photos, quickly sort through military reports and even enable individual robots to navigate within an army of fellow automatons. Tucker Balch, associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, said swarm intelligence applied to some problems can result in pretty good solutions pretty quickly.

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