couzin

British  

/ ˈkʌzən /

noun

1. a friend

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Example Sentences

The set, by Kristen Robinson, shows a school hallway at an angle, with cutouts for a living room and a bed, as needed, while Mextly Couzin’s flashing, deep-hued lights nudge the environment toward the uncanny.

From New York Times

Iain Couzin is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at the University of Konstanz in Germany who studies swarm intelligence — how fish come together to form a school or birds soar and dive in unison in murmurations.

From New York Times

Researchers—such as Iain Couzin, director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior’s Department of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz in Germany—have set up experiments that, for example, enable real predatory fish to chase virtual prey.

From Scientific American

Couzin, who was not involved in the PiVR study, explains that “other virtual-reality approaches, which are highly complementary to the methodology here, have been used—including in my research group—to embed organisms, including flies, into fully immersive and photorealistic virtual environments where they can move and interact with 3-D environments.”

From Scientific American

“It is incredibly important to provide cost-effective, powerful tools for scientific inquiry,” Couzin says.

From Scientific American