Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem

Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 14:33 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon University says it could be used to more effectively deploy wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing applications.

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