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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>COOL!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.4pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.0pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'>A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#9D9573;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.4pt'>By Bjorn Carey <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'>Katherine Decktar</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3F3C30'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;background:#F6F3E5'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3F3C30'>Harvester ant foragers waiting inside the nest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3F3C30'>On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. The researchers are calling it the "anternet."…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/ants-mimic-internet-082312.html">http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/ants-mimic-internet-082312.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>