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January 12, 2023
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May 17, 2020
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March 17, 2020
- Folding@home began studying the COVID-19 coronavirus on February 27 to help find drugs to fight it
- Rosetta@home began studying the COVID-19 coronavirus on February 24 to help find drugs to fight it
- Foldit began a series of puzzles on March 4 to help design drugs to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus. Put your puzzle-solving skills to work to help!
- New, active Distributed Human project: Spotting Spider Monkeys is identifying and tagging spider monkeys in infrared rainforest drone video clips to study deforestation and habitat loss in Central and South America
- New (to this site), active Mathematics project: Minimal Superpermutation Problem is "looking for minimal superpermutations, strings formed from a set of n symbols such that every one of the n! permutations of those symbols appears at least once as a contiguous block of n characters in the string."
- SETI@home will stop distributing work units and will go on hiatus after March 31, 2020. The project owners need to complete back-end analysis of the work units returned so far and publish papers for the results. The project will stay in a hiatus state and may resume sending work units some day in the future.
- news article: SETI@Home Is Over; The Fight Against COVID-19 Coronavirus Is Just Beginning
- news article: Coronavirus - What we’re doing and how you can help in simple terms
- news article: NVIDIA Asks Players To Use Their Gaming PCs To Fight Coronavirus: NVIDIA GeForce calls for the PC gaming community to make extra GPU power available to scientists tirelessly researching the COVID-19 virus
- news article: Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@home
- news article: You Can Help Fight Coronavirus by Giving Scientists Access to Your Computer: Stanford’s Folding@home is using distributed computing to help develop COVID-19 drugs
- news article: Seti@home is on Pause. Unfortunately, it’s not Because They’ve Discovered Aliens
- news article: How you can use your computer to help fight COVID-19 coronavirus
- news article: Call to spot spider monkeys to help tackle habitat loss
- news article: After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations
- news article: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19 / 2019-nCoV
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February 1, 2019
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November 27, 2018
- New, active Distributed Human project: Astronomy Rewind is classifying images scanned from old astronomy journals: to "make a holistic map of images of the sky extracted from Astrophysics Data System (ADS) literature."
- news article: The Easiest Side Hustle Ever? Renting Out Your Phone When You're Asleep
- news article: Be A Part Of New Drug Discovery: the Conduit platform will make for-pay computing resources available to biotech companies
- news article: From cancer to climate change: The tech you can use to save the world
- news article: Citizen Scientists Give New Life And Value To Old Astrophotos; an overview of the Astronomy Rewind Zooniverse project
- news article: Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Unravel the Mysteries of South Sudan's Forests; an overview of the South Sudan DiversityCam Zooniverse project
- news article: Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing
- news article: Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research
- news article: Cryptocurrency Mining is Hampering the Search for Alien Life
- news article: Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people: Using Overclock's Akash Network, companies can turn their unused servers into Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers for rent
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April 12, 2018
- New, active Distributed Human project: Amazo'N'Oil is identifying animal species in the Amazon which might be exposed to oil pollution
- New, active Distributed Human project: Grouse Grooves is studying Greater Sage-Grouse behavior and conservation efforts
- New, active Distributed Human project: Reading Nature's Library is discovering the treasures in Manchester Museum's collection
- Uncovering Genome Mysteries produced 30 Terabytes of data when it completed in 2017. In November, 2017, the project's research teams began "analyzing this vast amount of data, and looking for ways to make it easy for other scientists and the public to understand."
- news article: Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people: Using Overclock's Akash Network, companies can turn their unused servers into Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers for rent
- news article: What you don’t know could hurt your computer
- news article: It’s a movement: Amateur scientists are making huge discoveries
- news article: UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids
- news article: Crowdsourcing just found an entire star system
- news article: The K2-138 system: the first exoplanet system discovered by citizen scientists
- news article: Planets around other stars like peas in a pod
- news article: Chief AI Scientist: Bitcoin Mining Could Power Scientific Research
- news article: Research For All (a poem)
- news article: IBM to invest $200 million in climate change research: 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
- news article: Analysis Underway on 30 Terabytes of Data from the Uncovering Genome Mysteries Project
- news article: Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees: an overview of the Amazon Aerobotany project
- news article: Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin
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