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New Project - Hawk Talk

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 MST

Public Gets Chance to Earn Block Rewards by Donating Computing Power to Scientific Research

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 MST

Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 MST

Volunteer scientists play important role in wildlife research project

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 MST

OpenZika Team Adds New Resources to Continue Massive Data Analysis

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 MST

The Easiest Side Hustle Ever? Renting Out Your Phone When You're Asleep

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

From cancer to climate change: The tech you can use to save the world

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Citizen Scientists Give New Life And Value To Old Astrophotos

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Astronomy Rewind Zooniverse project

Be A Part Of New Drug Discovery

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 MDT

the Conduit platform will make for-pay computing resources available to biotech companies

Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Unravel the Mysteries of South Sudan's Forests

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the South Sudan DiversityCam Zooniverse project

Science Edition: Citizen Science

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 MDT

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Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Cryptocurrency Mining is Hampering the Search for Alien Life

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Using Overclock's Akash Network, companies can turn their unused servers into Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers for rent

What you don�t know could hurt your computer

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Citizen scientists join in search for exoplanets

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

What is 'cryptojacking' and why you need to worry about it

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

Volunteers are wanted to transcribe justices' notes from SCOTUS conferences

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Crypto Mining Gets in the Way of E.T. Search

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Cryptocurrency miners and their demand for GPUs are interfering with the search for alien life

Blockchain startup Aura will offer gaming rewards for your idle computer time

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

U of M crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices� handwritten notes

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new SCOTUS Notes project

Salon Asks Users to Mine Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Ad-Free Site

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Ready, set, Zooniverse: Calgary's citizen-science link goes live

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Let�s Talk About Bitcoin�s Insane Energy Consumption

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Get your phone solving cancer on World Cancer Day (and after)

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

It�s a movement: Amateur scientists are making huge discoveries

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 MST

Crowdsourcing just found an entire star system

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

The K2-138 system: the first exoplanet system discovered by citizen scientists

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Planets around other stars like peas in a pod

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Sofa Conservation

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

How many elephants can you see? How many orangutans are in that tree? New conservation projects are hoping the answers to these questions can help protect endangered species around the world

Amateur Astronomers Discover �Unusual� Five-Planet System Using Zooniverse And Kepler Data

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Citizen scientists discover five-planet system

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Power-Hog Bitcoin May Find Answers in Scientific Bounty Hunt

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Kelp, Spacecraft, and You

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Computing project finds largest known prime number

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

We Have A New Prime Number, And It�s 23 Million Digits Long

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

FedEx Employee Discovers Largest Prime Number Ever at 23 Million Digits Long

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Eclipse Megamovie project seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

Your Computer Can Volunteer, Too

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 MST

9 Ways You Can Use Your Devices for Advanced Scientific Research

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life

Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

Looking Up: Search for extraterrestrial life continues

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

Chief AI Scientist: Bitcoin Mining Could Power Scientific Research

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

Research For All

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

(a poem)

IBM to invest $200 million in climate change research

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 MST

To support the scientific community in its efforts to understand the impact of climate change, IBM is offering around $200 million for five climate-related projects that will leverage its World Community Grid network

Analysis Underway on 30 Terabytes of Data from the Uncovering Genome Mysteries Project

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 MST

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Amazon Aerobotany project

Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 MST

Saving the world with spare computing power

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of World Community Grid

Here�s how citizen scientists assisted with the disaster response in the Caribbean

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Your Computer Might Be Working for Currency Miners

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Some call it malware, but it could be great for internet publishers

Using AI, citizen science and disaster response to help victims of Hurricane Irma

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 MDT

You can help Boston map the entire human microbiome

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Scientists want to study how the human microbiome bacteria in our bodies affect our health, but they need you to lend your computer's power to do so

Listening to Starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligence

Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Planet Nine Breakthrough? Four Candidates Located

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Search for elusive Planet 9 gets a crowdsourcing boost

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 MDT

It seems to be lurking far beyond Pluto. Major efforts are now underway to find it thanks in part to citizen science platform Zooniverse and the BBC.

2 Unusual Ways To Earn Cryptocurrency Using Just Your Laptop or PC

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 MDT

Finally, a use for your mobile phone: Snapping ALIEN signal blurts

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:00 MST

Citizen science project to find galactic bursts using selfie-taking pocket radio receivers

IBM wants your help to find new cancer cures using your computer or android smartphone

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 MST

Donate Your Computer�s Spare Time to Science

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 MDT

New Project--Gravity Spy!

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Orlando volunteers aid Zika research

Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00:00 MDT

As UK Reports More Zika Cases, IBM Offers Up Free Technology To Fight Virus

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 MDT

foldit's Tuberculosis Challenge begins

Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Citizen science fosters collaboration

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 MDT

A new crowdsourcing platform helps citizens and scientists work together; an overview of Zooniverse projects

You can help decipher Civil War telegrams

Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Your smartphone can fight Zika virus

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of World Community Grid's OpenZika project

Can the smartphone cure Zika?

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decode U.S. Civil War telegrams

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Scientists need your help: Identify species with Zooniverse

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

SETI Gets an Upgrade

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 MDT

If we broaden our search, will we hear aliens? $100 million says yes

Your Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika

Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 MDT

IBM uses supercomputing power for Zika research

Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Citizen scientists aid Ecuador earthquake relief

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Effort to identify damaged areas combines crowdsourcing with machine-learning algorithms

That mighty thud was CERN dropping 300TB of raw collider data to the Internet

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 MDT

How Technology is Fighting Against Tuberculosis

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 MDT

IBM, University of Nottingham initiate tuberculosis study

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 MDT

Billionaire�s Huge New Alien-Hunting Project To Scan Stars For Life Next Year

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 MST

The Strongest Supercomputer on Earth Still Needs Your Laptop to Cure Cancer

Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 MST

Volunteer computing and BOINC, once the future of research, are an ocean of unrealized promise. Why? Its creators don't have a way to reach out to you.

How to Start Volunteer Computing in 2016

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 MST

BOINC and World Community Grid volunteers are working to save the world. Joining them is easy.

Volunteers Donate PC Power

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 MST

Did SETI@Home ever find aliens using your old computer?

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 MDT

Want to help make the next newsbreaking science find? Become a citizen scientist

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse projects

Gridcoin -- A Crypto that Empowers Scientific Research

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00:00 MDT

So You Want to Be a (Citizen) Scientist?

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 MDT

Now You Can Help Scientists Track Animals In Mozambique From Your Sofa

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse's WildCam Gorongosa project

SETI reborn: The New Search for Intelligent Life

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 MDT

WildCam Gorongosa: Help Tag Animal Selfies to Support Conservation in Africa

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 MDT

A funding breakthrough for SETI

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 MDT

Happy Birthday, Einstein@Home

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 MDT

Turbo-Charging the Hunt for ETs

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 MDT

This Will Give our Decade a Shot at Cosmic Stardom; some of the data from Breakthrough Initiatives, a new, larger, SETI listening project, will be processed by SETI@home

Stephen Hawking plans to find aliens using our Android smartphones

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 MDT

some data from Breakthrough Initiatives, a new, larger, SETI listening project, will be processed by SETI@home on the BOINC distributed computing platform

Disaster Response in Nepal and The Zooniverse

Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of how Zooniverse responded to requests for help with the Nepal disaster and how it may be able to help with future disasters

How can your computer help find a cure?

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid

Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls"

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:00:00 MDT

The Milky Way Project volunteers have identified objects which are in the early stages of massive star formation

Citizen scientists earn their stripes with tiger-tagging app

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Wildsense project

Number-crunching Higgs boson

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:00:00 MDT

meet the world�s largest distributed computer grid

Top distributed computing projects still hard at work fighting the world's worst health issues

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 MDT

Help New York Build a Digital Time Machine

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

The New York Public Library needs a hand with its ambitious "Google Maps of yesteryears" project

Seven quadrillion comparisons later, Uncovering Genome Mysteries is just getting started

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Uncovering Genome Mysteries project

Estes Park participating in World Community Grid effort

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

Using one cancer to help defeat many: Mapping Cancer Markers makes progress

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Mapping Cancer Markers project

Making progress against two of the world�s deadliest diseases

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the GO Fight Against Malaria project

Charity Engine Debuts Million-Core Challenge

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

Charity Engine will donate 1 million core-hours of CPU processing to each of three distributed computing projects

Computing for Clean Water on the road to publication

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Computing for Clean Water project

Clean Energy Project team continues to make progress

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Computing for Clean Energy project

UW researchers developing treatment for Celiac Disease

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

researches at the University of Washington used the Foldit tool to discover an "enzyme that will break down gluten in the stomach, allowing those diagnosed with Celiac disease to safely digest gluten. The enzyme, KumaMax named from the model enzyme [the] team used called Kumamycin, will be in pill-form."

Using grid computing to understand an underwater world

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

results from World Community Grid's Computing for Sustainable Water project

CITIZEN SCIENTISTS LEAD ASTRONOMERS TO MASSIVE STAR COCOONS

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

Mystery Objects Are Missing Link in Star Formation in Our Galaxy

Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

volunteers from The Milky Way Project have given astronomers a "new way to detect the early stages of massive star formation"

Sony launches Folding@home initiative for smartphones--curing disease with your phone

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

New mobile app from Stanford and Sony lets your phone conduct research on breast cancer and Alzheimer's while it charges

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

Folding@home will now run on Android phones

How Scientists Plus Zooniverse Ended Up w/Floating Forests Project

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

Coop�s Citizen Sci Scoop: Try it, you might like it

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Classify Possible Planetary Habitats

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Disk Detective project

Help Fight Ebola With Your Smartphone

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Outsmart Ebola Together project

Help cure Ebola by donating your smartphone's idle time

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

How Your Tablet Can Help Find an Ebola Cure

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

Anyone with a computer or Android smartphone can perform cutting edge research on the formidable virus

New imaging tools accelerate cancer research

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Help Conquer Cancer project

Donate Processing Time to Fight Ebola

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

Podcast: Citizen Science Answering the Call

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed computing projects

Student�s project probes black holes, galaxies

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

A physics student�s research is using scientific crowdsourcing to better understand how black holes form

Volunteer computing: 10 years of supporting CERN through LHC@home

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an update on the LHC@home project and the ATLAS@Home project

Help researchers find an Ebola cure

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Outsmart Ebola Together project

IBM helps you donate computer power to fight Ebola

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Outsmart Ebola Together

You Can Help Physicists Make the Next Higgs Boson Discovery

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Higgs Hunters project

Zennet Uses Blockchain Technology to Pay for Distributed Computing

Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 MST

the Zennet project proposes to create a for-pay distributed computing market using a new Zencoin cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin): people can pay distributed computing project participants in Zencoin

Mine for Citizen Science!

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 MST

Gridcoin and FoldingCoin aretwo new projects which may contribute resources to distributed computing projects while generating Bitcoins

Crisis mappers turn to citizen scientists

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 MST

Crowdsourced disaster surveys strive for more reliability in online collaboration

Digitised WW1 diaries highlight battle confusion

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:00:00 MST

results from Operation War Diary show a different version of events in the war

Collect call from E.T. Do you accept the charges?

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and SETI@home

Zooniverse: Asteroid Zoo

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 MST

Happy Halloween! Going Batty for Citizen Science

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

Crowdsourced DNA Project to Speed Up Research

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project

No Time To Volunteer? Let Your Computer Do It

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the BOINC distributed computing platform and some of the projects it supports

Community Grid Fosters Microbial Discovery

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project

Distributed computing project enables UNSW's DNA research

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

Project will enable 20 quadrillion comparisons of 200 million DNA proteins in months; an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project

Brian Cox�s guide to becoming a citizen scientist

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

The internet and technology have opened up opportunities for amateur scientists - you may discover new planets or species

Citizen science - from studying bees or seaweed to solar storm-watching

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

The range of projects that you and your family can get involved with is staggering, and the potential rewards are immense

The Sound of Science! 5 Citizen Science Projects That Need Your Ears

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

links to SETI@home and 4 other projects which need volunteers

Zooniverse: Floating Forests

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse's new Floating Forests project

Global computer network powers research

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 MDT

The World Community Grid makes cancer research faster and more efficient

Chicago Wildlife Watch Recruits Chicagoans to Help Conduct Urban Wildlife Research

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 MDT

The Adler Planetarium and Lincoln Park Zoo collaborate on new web-based platform that engages the public from home or classroom in scientific research through photo identification technology

Xennet wants YOUR machines for tradable supercomputer cloud

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:00:00 MDT

SETI@home, Bitcoin the inspirations

Alien Artifacts On The Moon?

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 MDT

SETI researcher Paul Davies suggests that a crowd-sourced visual search of images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) could find artifacts left by alien civilizations (if there are any)

Crowdsourcing + Science = Results

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Chris Lintott, his Zooniverse project, and crowdsourcing scientific research

Astronomers invite you to help name exoplanets and their stars

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 MDT

a new web platform called NameExoWorlds, being developed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and Zooniverse, will allow the public to help name distant planets and stars

UR tests app for donating excess space on cellphones

Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 MDT

the University of Rochester is testing a computer application called the Green Energy Mobile Cloud which will let mobile phone users donate their phones' spare computing power to distributed computing-based research projects

Australia�s alien UFO hunters number 34,000 and use 85 million computer hours

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SETI@home and Australia's participation in it

Planetary Resources and Zooniverse Launch Asteroid Zoo, A Citizen Science Asteroid Challenge

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Asteroid Zoo project

Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Asteroid Zoo project

How Your Idle Computer Can Help Fight Alzheimer�s Disease

Wed, 14 May 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Compute Against Alzheimer's Disease project

Your Computer Downtime Could Help Crack the Alzheimer�s Code

Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Compute Against Alzheimer's Disease project

Search for Malaysia Airlines plane turns to crowdsourcing for clues

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 MDT

HTC phone users to power up scientific research

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of HTC's Power To Give project

HTC wants to combine all your Android phones to cure diseases

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 MST

an overview of HTC's Power To Give initiative and its Google Play app that does distributed computing on your Android phone when it is plugged in to charge and is connected to WiFi

Breakthrough in the fight against childhood cancer

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 MST

World Community Grid's Help Fight Childhood Cancer project has found seven promising drug candidates to fight neuroblastoma and has published a paper about the results

Donate your computing power

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 MST

short overviews of several major distributed computing projects

Computer sharing loses momentum

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 MST

Competition and education needed to keep people engaged

Mapping Cancer Markers project launch

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Mapping Cancer Markers project

Home computers discover gamma-ray pulsars

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 MST

Einstein@Home has discovered four new gamma-ray pulsars

Computing to find cures

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 MDT

a description of how distributed computing is used to find cures for diseases and an overview of Folding@home

Data+ Awards: Harvard's Clean Energy Project gets a massive speed boost

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 MDT

Computing grid accelerates data sharing among scientists; using the computing resources of World Community Grid allowed The Clean Energy Project to complete 17,000 years of computations in 3 years

Crowdsourcing the Stars

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

Across the Zooniverse--keeping an eye on citizen astronomy

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

U.S. Used 'Distributed Intelligence' to Investigate Boston Marathon Bombing

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

Across the Zooniverse: Keeping an eye on citizen astronomy

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

amateur astronomers in Russia discovered the remains of the Soviet Mars 3 lander from images from HiRISE

Citizen science: Go ahead, try this at home

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of several Distributed Human projects which need more participants

Science: Citizens getting back to basics

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

part 2 of a 7-article series investigating the rise of citizen science

Citizen Scientists: Future looks bright for DIY tech

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

part 1 of a 7-article series investigating the rise of citizen science

Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

Some day, inkjet-type printers could pump out solar cells

Is This the Long-Lost Soviet Mars 3 Lander?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

NASA�s orbiter possibly spots lost 1970's Soviet lander

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

a Russian crowd-sourcing effort may have found the remains of the Soviet Mars 3 spacecraft on Mars

25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

Android Phones Used By Scientist In Exploring The Universe

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MDT

a new BOINC client for Android phones will allow them to contribute processing to Einstein@Home

Long-shot distributed data center project in Canada like SETI for mobile

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MST

California company LeoNovus wants to make all of the idle computers in Stratford, Ontario work together as a single distributed data center

Distributed computing for the greater good

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MST

Zooniverse: Real Science Online

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MST

Distributed Computing Meets Drug Discovery

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Quantum Cures project

Facebook, Google tech gurus to design cancer research game

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

Pearls across the Zooniverse: When Crowdsourcing Becomes Citizen Science

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

Map the Planets and Moon Zoo Join Forces to Explore Lunar Craters

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

the new Map the Planets project is using result data from Moon Zoo to build automated systems to detect and classify craters in images of the Moon and eventually the planets in our solar system

Crowd-Sourced Einstein@Home Data Analysis Discovers New Pulsars

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

Einstein@Home has discovered 24 new pulsars, 6 of which are binary

New 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of GIMPS's discovery of the 48th knwn Mersenne prime

Largest prime number found--and it's 17,425,170 digits long

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 MST

2.5 Million Computers Give PetaFLOP/s Power to Einstein@Home, Other Projects

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Citizen scientists blaze trails, help find new planets

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Zooniverse and some of its projects

The 3Rs: Citizen science in the classroom

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

defining the rules that make a citizen science project appropriate for the classroom

Eagle Eye on AmCan: Zooites, slide rules and Goldilocks planets

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of "Zooites," volunteers for Zooniverse projects

Planet Hunters find new planets

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Jupiter-sized one may have habitable moons

Amateur astronomers discover 42 alien planets

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the recent Planet Hunters discovery

Citizen Scientists

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Researchers Crowdsource Mars Image Study

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Citizen scientists will be the first people to see much of Mars' southern pole; an overview of the new Zooniverse project: Planet Four

Desktop power helps map protein dance

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy has captured all of the possible molecular and atomic connections between 2,280 human proteins "known to mutate and induce different forms of neuromuscular disorders, including Muscular Dystrophy."

Planet Four and Stargazing Live

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of new project Planet Four

Call for public to study Mars images

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of new project Planet Four

15 new planets hint at 'traffic jam' of moons in habitable zone

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Citizen Science, Citizen Policy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

This Wind Tunnel-Cooled Computer Is Helping Conquer Cancer

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

The petaflops of citizen science

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

Einstein@Home has more than 1 PetaFLOPS of computing power for the first time

Help Herschel identify holes in space

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 MST

an overview of The Milky Way Project's 'Clouds' subproject

Oxford University helps take a "snapshot" of Serengeti life

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

NASA Launches New Citizen Science Game 'Clouds'

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

NASA Releases a Game to Crowd-Source Cloud Classification

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of NASA's new Zooniverse project, an update to The Milky Way Project to identify clouds in galaxies

Minn. researchers launch citizen science project Snapshot Serengeti

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Zooniverse project, Snapshot Serengeti

�Citizen scientists� classify wildlife

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

The U�s Lion Research Center gets help analyzing animals in Tanzania

Your Help Needed to Study Andromeda Galaxy

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Zooniverse project, The Andromeda Project

Crowdsourcing the cosmos: Astronomers welcome all to identify star clusters in Andromeda galaxy

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Zooniverse project, The Andromeda Project

Attacking Cloud Browsers for Distributed Computing

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 MST

Citizen Scientists Combine to Identify Effective Cancer Treatments

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of ClicktoCure

Citizen science project crowdsources identification of cancer cells

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Zooniverse project, ClicktoCure

NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Old Weather is transcribing weather data from ship logs from Arctic sea voyages back to 1850

Sony Removes Folding@home From PlayStation 3

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Volunteers Help Discover Extra-Solar Planet

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

citizen scientists discovered a new planet in Planet Hunters

Zooniverse lets citizen scientists analyze large datasets

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Zooniverse: Web-Scale Citizen Science

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

a presentation about Zooniverse by Zooniverse's Technical Lead, Arfon Smith

Become a Bat Detective

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of new Distributed Human project Bat Detective

Zooniverse Designates This Month 'Citizen Science September'

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Galaxy Zoo's Citrizen Science September initiative: "New projects. More science. All month long."

Help Oceanographers Comb the Ocean Floor From the Comfort of Your Screen

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Distributed Human project: Seafloor Explorer

Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Crowdsourcing can create an artificial chat partner that's smarter than Siri-style personal assistants.

I, for one, welcome our new machine collaborators

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Galaxy Zoo Supernovae ended on August 3, 2012. Data from the project trained machines so well that they are currently better than humans at identifying supernovae in images. The project may be restarted in the future with a combination of machine and human identification of supernovae in images or with humans identifying supernovae in images that are difficult for machines to analyze.

Wishing the Zooniverse a Happy 5th Birthday!

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 MDT

We need more smartphone-based citizen science

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Idle Home Computers Being Tapped For Global Social Innovation Solutions

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Charity Engine and other projects

Anyone out there?

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of "citizen science" projects, Zooniverse and SETILive

'Citizen science' tracking climate change

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of "citizen science" crowdsourcing projects

Citizen Science Test Drive: Flex your inner-astronomer's muscle with Zooniverse

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse's "citizen science" projects

Overclockers to fight for global supremacy

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Keep an eye on your servers as 'Chimp challenge' hits Folding@home; the annual "Chimp challenge" lets overclockers compete to see how much work they can contribute to Folding@home in 10 days

Crowdsourcing tool tapped to spot malaria

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of UCLA's new Biogames online citizen scientist game/tool to diagnose malaria

Lens Zoo is Coming!

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Zooniverse is creating a new project to search for gravitational lenses

Music fans asked to catalogue 4,000 Victorian scores

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse's new project What's the Score at the Bodleian?

TheSkyNet set to conquer more of our Universe

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

theSkyNet is working with Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC) to process data from its telescope

Game on! UCLA researchers use online crowd-sourcing to diagnose malaria

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Gaming system a new step for telepathology and other telemedicine fields; an overview of UCLA's new Biogames online citizen scientist game/tool to diagnose malaria

Citizen scientists search for alien life

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Amateur astronomy buffs find common goal in just a few clicks; an overview of SETILive

Chatterbox whales say what?

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Whale FM

Whale.FM: Where Citizen Science, Whale Songs, and Education Come Together

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an online discussion about Whale FM

IBM Enables Water Quality Predictions For Major Waterways in Partnership Between World Community Grid And University of Virginia

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

90 years of research collapsed into 12 months by using the power of two-million computers; an overview of the new Computing for Sustainable Water project

Unbeatable

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

a short history of one of the earliest online crowdsourcing projects: The Internet FreeCell project

Bringing Out the Hidden Scientist in You

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Zooniverse--a citizen science project review

Forecasting a warming world via thousands of PCs

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT

Citizen-scientists, volunteers donate computing time for climate research; recent results from climateprediction.net

Taiwanese Students Use Personal Seismic Sensors to Monitor Earthquakes

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a new earthquare detection project in Taiwain, similar to Quake Catcher Network

Pocket-sized sensors bring earthquake science to schools

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a new earthquare detection project in Taiwain, similar to Quake Catcher Network

In Search for Alien Life, Researchers Enlist Human Minds

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SETILive

Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MDT

A bubbly Milky Way

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MST

a discussion of interesting results from MilkyWay@home

Citizen scientists reveal a bubbly Milky Way

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MST

participants in MilkyWay@home have "discovered more than 5,000 'bubbles' in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles into surrounding gas and dust, indicating areas of brand new star formation."

Seti Live website to crowdsource alien life

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST

A website has been launched that aims to get the public involved in the search for extraterrestrial life; an overview of the new SETILive project

SETI Institute Teams Up With Zooniverse to Empower Citizen Scientists in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST

Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST

Stargazing viewer in planet coup

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

The public push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result.

Volunteers wanted for planet hunt

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Planet Hunters project

Charity Engine: The Ethical Supercomputer That Can Win You $10,000

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

The company sells your donated processing power to organizations for cheap. In exchange for your generosity, you can win yourself a nice bundle of cash.

Berkeley's BOINC Reaches 2B Results Milestone for SETI@Home

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

the BOINC computing client for SETI@home has contributed its 2 billionth result to the project

Charity Engine: The Even Cheaper Cloud Supercomputer?

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the new Charity Engine project

World Community Grid, your good deed for the day

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid and how to participate in it

Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the new Charity Engine project

Charity Engine: Donate spare PC power and stand a chance to win $1m

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

Cancer Research 'to double size of datacentre'

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

UK charity Cancer Research, which receives computing help from World Community Grid has doubled its data center size to 200 square meters and grown its total number of processing cores from 500 to 13,000

Video game players advancing genetic research

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Phylo project

Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

Protein-Folding Modeling For New Therapeutic Approaches

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

Folding@home has developed the new Copernicus framework to utilize supercomputers efficiently for protein folding simulations

Spare a little computing power to fight malaria

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

theSkyNet comes alive

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

SKA-related 'citizen science' project seeks participants

New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower's Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Harvard researchers were able to use hundreds of nontechnical workers through the Crowdflower crowd-sourcing site to examine thousands of images of Tuberculosis (TB) cells to study the effectiveness of various treatments for only pennies per image and to reduce the research time to a few weeks

Help NASA Train Astronauts Underwater

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Zooniverse's first lab project:

Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Accelerate physics with your own computer

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new LHC@home 2.0 project

Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project: You Can Help Too!

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

Columbian scientists tap global computer network in search of leishmaniasis drugs

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project

Put computer downtime to good use

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Scientists use global computer network to find leishmaniasis drugs

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project

NASA Looking for Useful Smartphone Apps for Vast Data

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of NASA's International Space Apps Challenge

SETI Projects Weather Recession

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Gamers Solve Decade Old HIV Puzzle in Ten Days

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Puzzle Gamers Solve Scientific Mystery that Could Help Cure AIDS

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Players of an online game have helped model the structure of an enzyme which has stumped scientists for over a decade

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Gamers succeed where scientists fail

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of Foldit players' recent discovery of the correct structure of an enzyme, related to AIDS, which scientists have not been able to understand for over a decade

Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

WA astronomers to crowdsource data processing

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of theSkyNet

IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

To use IBM's World Community Grid for collapsing 100 years of research into just two; over two-million Leishmaniasis sufferers worldwide

How SETI@Home Screens ET Candidates

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

SETI@Home volunteers have found 4.2 billion signals of interest since the project began in 1999. What happens to them?

Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets

Solar-Panel Researchers Need Your Computers

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Millions of molecules screened in search for the ideal organic solar cell material

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of The Clean Energy Project

CPUsage: Let Your PC Earn Money for You

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the upcoming cpusage project

Passive Collaboration: Add Your Processing Power to the Crowd

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

You can be a Citizen Scientist!

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed human and distributed computing projects

Searching for cheap solar cells in computer models

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Theoretical screening method produces first sample molecule as researchers analyse 3.5 million candidates for solar cells

Join the hunt for the Higgs boson

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Test4Theory@Home project

LHC@home: Help CERN find the God particle

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Huge Atom Smasher Seeks Citizen Cybersleuths

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Test4Theory@Home project

Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Zooniverse project: Ancient Life

Lego folding farm fights cancer, looks good doing it

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a computer with a case made of Legos is processing work units for World Community Grid

Astronomy Without A Telescope - Gravitational Waves

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of gravitational wave astronomy and Einstein@Home

Early quake alerts: Simulation modeling could enhance earthquake detection, warnings

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

Tapping Social Media's Potential to Muster a Vast Green Army

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the citizen science phenomenon and several distributed human projects

'Citizen-seismologists' sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

A supercomputer made of unused PCs

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Snap a Photo and Help Measure Earth's Albedo

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a one-day distributed human project to measure Earth's albedo on the Summer solstice

US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 MDT

SETI@home participants will eventually be able to process data being collected in a new SETI search at the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia

Researchers Ask For Help From Your Home Computers

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an interview with David Anderson, founder of the BOINC distributed computing platform

A CERN for climate change

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a global computing grid is needed to better understand climate change

Bumps in the night

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Play indie games, help Portal 2 release early

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

spoof distributed computing project site GLaDOS@Home encouraged "participants" to play select independently-developed games to get Portal 2 released sooner. Almost 64,000 people participated.

Meteorologists should explain, not just predict

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

public distributed computing weather research projects like climateprediction.net can help explain weather, not just predict it

Volunteer Computing for Earthquake Detection

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Modern Magellans: New NSF Grant at Rensselaer Uses the Power of the Masses to Map Dark Matter in the Galaxy

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MDT

MilkyWay@home will predict where dark matter (which is unobservable with current telescopes) exists in our galaxy

Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MST

Watson Sparks Interest in Humanitarian Computing

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

IBM's World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer for humanitarian challenges, is benefiting from Watson's success on TV's Jeopardy. One day after the Jeopardy tournament, donations of unused PC time jumped 700 percent. IBM's World Community Grid tackles problems like water purification, cancer research, and HIV/AIDS treatments.

CMU's CrowdForge taps the collective power of millions

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Crowdforge project crowdsourcing framework

In Watson's Wake, IBM World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700%

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

seeing IBM's Watson computer win on the Jeopardy game show prompted a lot of people to become participants in World Community Grid

Distributed Computing Project: Climate Change Is Responsible For All The Flooding

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

Distributed computing project blames floods on climate change

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

results from climateprediction.net tie extreme flooding in 2000 to global warming

Developing Community Comes Together to Break Motorola's Locked Bootloaders

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 MST

software developers are creating a BOINC-based project to crack Motorola's mobile device bootloader lock; unlocking the bootloader allows device users to flash the device's read-only memory and change the software features on the device

Doing Real-World Science, But Skipping The Ph.D.

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed human, or "citizen science," projects

Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Internet-based "Citizen Science" projects

Phylo Flash game helps trace genetic disease

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Phylo project

Help Scientists Hunt for Exploding Stars

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project

Happy 6th Birthday, World Community Grid!

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

Galaxy Zoo Searches for Supernovae

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project

Maximum Interview: the Science Behind Folding@Home

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Folding@home project

Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen science works

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo project and other distributed human projects

Sony Assists Researchers Worldwide With Humanitarian Research Projects

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Sony is including the World Community Grid computing client on all of its VAIO laptops

Einstein at home bags a pulsar

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home discovered a rare pulsar in data in which it is searching for evidence of gravity waves

8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of several distributed computing projects

Virtual thinkers solving real world problems

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the first Citizen Cyberscience Summit

MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the MapRejuice distributed computing client for web browsers

Home Computers Dredge Up Weird Pulsar

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home discovered an odd pulsar