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Title: Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
Author: Mitchel Resnick
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 1994
ISBN: 0262680939
Abstract: How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems--and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.

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  abstract =	 {How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful
                  and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird
                  in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird
                  flocks don't have leaders: they are organized
                  without an organizer, coordinated without a
                  coordinator. And a surprising number of other
                  systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to
                  economic systems, work the same decentralized
                  way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes
                  innovative new computational tools that can qhelp
                  people (even young children) explore the workings of
                  such systems--and help them move beyond the
                  centralized mindset.},
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