For robot swarms to operate outside of the laboratory in complex real-world environments,
they require the kind of error tolerance, flexibility, and scalability seen in living systems …

Organisms that can more effectively exploit information about their environments to improve
foraging success have a competitive and selective advantage over others. Thus, animals are …

Smart cities result from the wide adoption of information and communication technologies
aimed at addressing challenges arising from overpopulation and resources shortage …

Humans are the most effective integrators and producers of information, directly and through
the use of information-processing inventions. As these inventions become increasingly …

Data obtained from biosurveillance can be used by public health systems to detect and
respond to disease outbreaks and save lives. However, existing data is distributed across …

Human beings are driven to explore distant new worlds as we seek to better understand our
place in the Universe. Because of the inherent dangers of human spaceflight, we often send …

Efficient parallel computing is still a difficult goal to achieve, despite being of research
interest for more than half a century. For the past decade, however, the topic has become …