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>   In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
>   COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

Does the inset have to be alive?
What about "spy" bugs[insects]?

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In article <47...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM 
(Keith Lofstrom) writes:

> Okay, we've read lots of stories about bugs in computers.
> In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
> COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

There was a photomicrograph in Science News last year of a honeybee with
a silicon chip glued to its back.  The chip was an infrared transponder that
somehow enabled scientists to study its movements.  The caption read
"This bee has a chip on its shoulder!".

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In article <47...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
>In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
>COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

	Rod Brooks, of the AI Lab at MIT (as if there were another AI Lab)
has gone even further than that.  He designed a computer bug (or was it a
bug computer).  The thing is an artificial insect about six or eight inches
long with a couple of microprocessors on board.  When he talked here last
year, he brought videotape of the thing crawling around the lab (over objects,
etc).  I believe the thing was programmed to seek heat (as indicated by its
infrared sensors) since hot things might be food sources.  Brooks claimed that
his next project was a robot iguana.

Russell G. Brown					rbr...@cs.cornell.edu

kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:

>In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
>COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

>( If this small computer had a defect that caused the insect to crawl
>into the engine controller of a Volkswagen, causing the vehicle to
>crash through a wall and smash into a large mainframe, would that be a
>bug in a computer in a bug in a computer in a bug in a computer? :-) )

 No, surely it would be a computer in a bug in a computer in a bug in a 
computer ??

 If, however, we revert to the original system whereby creatures are found 
inside the electronics, we can thereby have a spider in the engine management
system of the car which eats the component containing the creature to
produce the above combination.

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	Dave C.
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In article <13...@sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp...@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) writes:
<kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
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apparently in the latest issue of National Geographic there is an article about
a robot bee that dances well enough to communicate with real bees...

unless of course there is a flaw with the software (a computer bug in a
computer bug)