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A CERN for climate change; a global computing grid is needed to better understand climate changeInternational Science Grid this WeekApril 27, 2011
Bumps in the night; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network projectInternational Science Grid this WeekApril 27, 2011
Play indie games, help Portal 2 release early: 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.Computerworld IDGApril 15, 2011
Meteorologists should explain, not just predict: public distributed computing weather research projects like climateprediction.net can help explain weather, not just predict itenvironmentalresearchwebApril 12, 2011
Volunteer Computing for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network projectDr. Dobb'sMarch 29, 2011
Modern Magellans: New NSF Grant at Rensselaer Uses the Power of the Masses to Map Dark Matter in the Galaxy; MilkyWay@home will predict where dark matter (which is unobservable with current telescopes) exists in our galaxyRPI: News and EventsMarch 15, 2011
Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second PulsarScientific AmericanMarch 1, 2011
CMU's CrowdForge taps the collective power of millions; an overview of the Crowdforge project crowdsourcing frameworkPOPCityFebruary 23, 2011
In Watson's Wake, IBM World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700%; seeing IBM's Watson computer win on the Jeopardy game show prompted a lot of people to become participants in World Community GridIT News OnlineFebruary 18, 2011
Distributed Computing Project: Climate Change Is Responsible For All The FloodingCrunchGearFebruary 18, 2011
Distributed computing project blames floods on climate change; results from climateprediction.net tie extreme flooding in 2000 to global warmingArs TechnicaFebruary 17, 2011
Developing Community Comes Together to Break Motorola’s Locked Bootloaders: 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 deviceTheUnlockrJanuary 24, 2011
Doing Real-World Science, But Skipping The Ph.D.: an overview of distributed human, or "citizen science," projectsNational Public RadioJanuary 7, 2011
Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web: an overview of Internet-based "Citizen Science" projectsNew York TimesDecember 17, 2010
Phylo Flash game helps trace genetic disease: an overview of the new Phylo projectWired News UKDecember 1, 2010
Help Scientists Hunt for Exploding Stars; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae projectWiredNovember 17, 2010
Happy 6th Birthday, World Community Grid!World Community GridNovember 16, 2010
Galaxy Zoo Searches for Supernovae; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae projectUniverse TodayNovember 11, 2010
Maximum Interview: the Science Behind Folding@Home; an overview of the Folding@home projectMaximum PCNovember 3, 2010
Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen science works; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo project and other distributed human projectsArs TechnicaOctober 26, 2010
Sony Assists Researchers Worldwide With Humanitarian Research Projects; Sony is including the World Community Grid computing client on all of its VAIO laptopsPOPSOP.comOctober 22, 2010
Einstein at home bags a pulsar; Einstein@Home discovered a rare pulsar in data in which it is searching for evidence of gravity wavesInternational Science Grid this WeekOctober 6, 2010
8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer; an overview of several distributed computing projectsTech News DailySeptember 20, 2010
 
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