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A CERN for climate change; a global computing grid is needed to better understand climate change | International Science Grid this Week | April 27, 2011 |
Bumps in the night; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | International Science Grid this Week | April 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 IDG | April 15, 2011 |
Meteorologists should explain, not just predict: public distributed computing weather research projects like climateprediction.net can help explain weather, not just predict it | environmentalresearchweb | April 12, 2011 |
Volunteer Computing for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | Dr. Dobb's | March 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 galaxy | RPI: News and Events | March 15, 2011 |
Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar | Scientific American | March 1, 2011 |
CMU's CrowdForge taps the collective power of millions; an overview of the Crowdforge project crowdsourcing framework | POPCity | February 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 Grid | IT News Online | February 18, 2011 |
Distributed Computing Project: Climate Change Is Responsible For All The Flooding | CrunchGear | February 18, 2011 |
Distributed computing project blames floods on climate change; results from climateprediction.net tie extreme flooding in 2000 to global warming | Ars Technica | February 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 device | TheUnlockr | January 24, 2011 |
Doing Real-World Science, But Skipping The Ph.D.: an overview of distributed human, or "citizen science," projects | National Public Radio | January 7, 2011 |
Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web: an overview of Internet-based "Citizen Science" projects | New York Times | December 17, 2010 |
Phylo Flash game helps trace genetic disease: an overview of the new Phylo project | Wired News UK | December 1, 2010 |
Help Scientists Hunt for Exploding Stars; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project | Wired | November 17, 2010 |
Happy 6th Birthday, World Community Grid! | World Community Grid | November 16, 2010 |
Galaxy Zoo Searches for Supernovae; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project | Universe Today | November 11, 2010 |
Maximum Interview: the Science Behind Folding@Home; an overview of the Folding@home project | Maximum PC | November 3, 2010 |
Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen science works; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo project and other distributed human projects | Ars Technica | October 26, 2010 |
Sony Assists Researchers Worldwide With Humanitarian Research Projects; Sony is including the World Community Grid computing client on all of its VAIO laptops | POPSOP.com | October 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 waves | International Science Grid this Week | October 6, 2010 |
8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer; an overview of several distributed computing projects | Tech News Daily | September 20, 2010 |
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