McLurkin Visit 10-05

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The Robotics team was finally able to get our school’s first Engineer as a Visiting Dennard Scholar in October 2005.

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James McLurkin is a leader in the field of distributed robotic systems or swarms. As manager of the iRobot Swarm project, he developed the world's largest swarm of robots, and software algorithms to control them as a group.

He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the M.I.T. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

The aptly named Swarm was inspired by the biology of bees and ants, both swarm insects that are reproductive labors and work autonomously but toward a common goal such as collecting nectar.

From the 4th- 12th Grade, all students had a chance to interact with the swarm robots and see them in action.

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