In our paper “Predatory fish select for coordinated collective motion in virtual prey”, published in Science, we allow real predatory fish to play an immersive video game in which they hunt simulated prey. This allows us to reveal how predators exert selection pressure on social interactions among prey. This paper is available open access from [...]
We make number 5 with the below paper, but what happened to our much more cited paper Couzin et al. (2005) “Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move” Nature? I contacted LabTimes and they kindly explained that their automated system did not pick up on it die to it having a shared [...]
Kfar Blum, Upper Galilee, Israel
February 18 – 21, 2013
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Gil Ariel, Bar-Ilan, University, Israel
Igor Aronson, Northwestern University, USA
Amir Ayali, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA, USA
Iain Couzin, Princeton University, USA
Pierre Degond, Toulouse, France
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Irene Giardina, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Inbal Hecht, UCSD, USA
Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Herbert Levine, UCSD, USA
Sebastien [...]
Princeton’s Iain Couzin named 2012 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Iain Couzin, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, studies collective animal behavior.
According to National Geographic’s press release:
“Behavioral ecologist Iain Couzin (Ph.D.) is assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton. His work aims to reveal the fundamental [...]
The Wall Street Journal recently quoted Iain in a feature on hoe graphics processing units (GPUs) are changing the face of scientific computing: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577418243311260010.html?mod=djkeyword#articleTabs%3Darticle
This followed Iain’s Keynote address at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference:
http://smooth-las-akam.istreamplanet.com/live/demo/nvid4/player.html
By accessing social cues individuals, who may themselves be limited in sensory range and cognitive capacity, can access higher-order computational capabilities. We have previously shown, in a paper in Nature, how directional information can be effectively disseminated within groups, facilitating both ad-hoc leadership and consensus decision-making even in the absence of signaling or individual recognition. [...]