All world's life in a silicon ecosystem

• Autores: Catherine Brahic
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2966, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brahic details how people can stimulate the vast and complex interactions of the living organisms on Earth. Named Madingley, after the village in Cambridgeshire UK where the idea was dreamt up, it is a mathematical model that may help people predict the future. The Madingley computer model is the first outs kind to simulate the way in which all types of organisms interact on a global scale. Researchers attempting to model ecosystems typically take atop-down approach, collecting as much data as they can from a chosen system, such as a forest or an ocean, and cramming it into a model. Instead, Drew Purves of Microsoft's Computational Science Lab in Cambridge and his colleagues built a mathematical world that obeys the same basic principles as life on Earth.