Ants: The New Way to Protect Yourself from Viruses

Michael Sandt

According to a recent Telegraph article, researchers at the University of Wake forest are conducting an advanced new way. Upon observation of a colony of ant behaved under threat, the developers created a program that used "swarming intelligence" to minimize virus threats in a computer. They technology is slated to use "digital ants" to patrol a computer looking for viruses, upon discover it would call a plethora of similar reinforcements. The new ant based system is believed to run faster than current security methods that have to be updated to recognize new threats. I think it is fascinating that universities are conducting these levels of advanced research with computers. As one of the fields in which new technology is advancing most rapidly, the fact that programmers can generate these programs in cooperation with universities world wide. I certainly hope that Georgia Tech is engaged in this kind of research as I'm seriously considering changing my major to computer science. If they are, I'm looking forward to seeing such research at the advanced level.