Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

How Ants Convey Information

Prabhakar, Dektar and Gordon determine that ants regulate their foraging based on information derived from foraging parties . Bruno Skvorc noted in a SitePoint article that the ants use a method similar to TCP to route the foragers.

-DD

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Friday, August 22, 2014

TCP/IP and RLNC

Patrick Nelson predicts that the Web's underlying TCP/IP protocol shall be replaced by Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) which uses algorithms to correct errors at a message's receiving end. This is supposed to be a much faster technology for distributing video feeds, etc.

-DD

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tracing Web Sites to an IP Address and Physical Location

Tinkernut has a Youtube video that explains how to "Trace IP Addresses ."

-DD

 

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