To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 23:30
in Mathematics & Economics
It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research reveals that the two identify novel information in similar ways. The work not only sheds light on an important neurobiological problem -- how organisms detect new odors -- but could also improve algorithms for novelty detection in computer science.