| Project Information | Project % Complete | Major Supported Platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed Human Projects | |||
Participate in Mindpixel, a
project in which you can help teach an artificially intelligent computer
program to think more like a human by asking it questions.
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ongoing: 1,157,692 mindpixels | N/A | |
Help teach computers to understand human "common sense"
in the Open Mind Commonsense
project, a
project which will create a repository of basic human knowledge.
Users can participate in many activites from describing the things that someone should know to fully understand an event to explaining the relationship between a pair of words or to describing a picture. |
ongoing: 10,218 registered users have submitted 492,370 items. | N/A | |
Help proofread electronic texts for Project
Gutenberg at Distributed
Proofreaders.
The project has personal stats pages and rankings for proofreaders so that each proofreader can see how he or she is doing compared to other proofreaders. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing: 777 books completed | N/A | |
Help NASA mark craters on images of Mars in the
Clickworkers project.
Note: this web-based project requires you to have Netscape 6, Mozilla, or
Internet Explorer version 5 or greater.
The pilot project concluded in June, 2001. You can see the results of the study. It isn't known when or whether a new project will begin, but you can still try the tasks that were done in the pilot study. You can also try some other activities for fun:
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waiting for next project to begin | N/A | |
Contribute a verse to a song about the New Economy at
Geektones - Gods of the New
Economy distributed songwriting project. This isn't a serious project,
but it's funny :-)
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ongoing | N/A | |
Track how many keys you type in a year in
Project Dolphin. The Win32 client
tracks your total number of keystrokes and periodically reports that total
to the project server. You can compete against other project members and
teams in the stats.
This project doesn't really contribute to the greater good of humanity
(unless it makes us use more calories by typing more); it's just for fun.
Version 0.95 of the client is available as of February 1, 2002. Join a realtime IRC chat about the project (server: irc.teardrop.ca, channel: #projectdolphin). |
ongoing |
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Help find undiscovered comets at the
SOHO LASCO Comet
Finders' Page. Hundreds of people around the world are looking for
undiscovered comets in real-time images from NASA's
Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory, a spacecraft which studies the Sun. You can look for comets
by downloading images from the site, creating short animations of four or
more pictures, and looking for possible comets in the animations.
This is not a true distributed human project (in that it is not organized as a project and does not use specific tools), but you can participate relatively easily. Sebastian's Comet Hunt and Mike's SOHO Comet Hunt have more tips on how to get started finding comets. |
ongoing | N/A | |
