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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: 1,435,350 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. This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing: 15,229 registered users have submitted 724,281 items. | N/A | |
Help teach computers how to interpret English words with multiple meanings in the context of sentences
in the Open Mind
Word Expert project. Users can play a free word game to teach computers
about word meanings.
In July, 2003, this project began similar foreign-langauge projects:
This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help teach computers about every-day things
in the Open Mind 1001
Questions project. Users teach Learner, an Artificial Intelligence
system, by choosing a topic to talk about and answering questions that Learner
asks about the topic.
This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help proofread electronic texts for
Project Gutenberg (PG) at
Distributed Proofreaders (DP).
On February 19, 2003, DP posted its 1,000th project to PG. In August, 2003, the project set a record of 129,273 pages proofread in one month. On September 3, 2003, DP posted its 2,000th project. On October 15, 2003, PG published its 10,000th ebook, a goal which was set in 1971. On January 14, 2004, DP posted its 3,000th project. On April 8, 2004, DP posted its 4,000th book. On August 21, 2004, DP posted its 5,000th project. On October 8, 2004, DP posted its 5,000th unique title. To participate, create an account, then select a proofreading project from a list. A proofreading interface is displayed in your web browser, and you can proofread pages for the project one at a time. 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. You can also become a project manager and prepare proofreading projects for the site, and you can reassemble proof-read projects for submission to Project Gutenberg. Join a discussion forum about this project. Audio versions of some of the books in Project Gutenberg are being created in the Radio Gutenberg project. |
ongoing: 5,979 projects posted to PG; 5,608 books completed |
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Help proofread electronic texts at
Distributed Proofreaders Europe. This
project "is a service of
Project Gutenberg
Europe, Project
Rastko, and the Global Translation Project. It has the ability [to
proofread] books in any Unicode-supported
language."
The project submitted its first book to Project Gutenberg on February 9, 2004. To participate, create an account, then select a proofreading project from a list. A proofreading interface is displayed in your web browser, and you can proofread pages for the project one at a time. 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. You can also become a project manager and prepare proofreading projects for the site, and you can reassemble proof-read projects for submission to Project Gutenberg. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing: 75 books completed |
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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
Project Orca. 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. The project is a continuation of the original
Project Dolphin.
Version 0.96 of the client is available as of January 20, 2003. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 14,396,553,323 total keystrokes by 4,847 users, 409.69 average keys/second |
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Tiny KeyCounter
is another project which lets you track your total
number of keystrokes and periodically reports that total to the project
server. It also tracks the number of times you press a mouse button or the
mouse scroll-wheel. You can compete against other project members and
teams in the stats. The project is just for fun.
Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing |
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Project Dolphin
is the old
Project Dolphin, restarted
by a new project coordinator. It lets you track 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. The
project is just for fun.
Version 0.95 of the client is currently available. |
ongoing: 115,360,341,146 total keys |
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 Projet Marmotte tracks the
distance traveled by your computer mouse and periodically reports that
distance to the project server. You can compete against other project
members, teams and countries in the stats. The project is just for fun.
The website is written in French, but
babelfish provides a reasonable
English translation
 of it.
Version 2.2 of the client is currently available. |
ongoing |
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You can help test beta version 6 if you are interested. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help teach indoor mobile robots to be
smarter in the Open Mind Indoor
Common Sense project. This project will create a repository of knowledge
which will enable people to create more intelligent mobile robots for use in
home and office enviornments.
Starting on June 1, 2004, the project is offering participants a US$25 Amazon.com gift certificate if they submit 500 accepted entries (100 of which must be star entries). Only entries submitted after June 1 will count. Each participant can earn a maximum of 4 gift certificates. A maximum of 50 gift certificates will be awarded. 31 gift certificates have been awarded as of November 29, 2004. This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing: 655 registered users have submitted 49,674 items. | N/A | |
BeWeS MouseTracker tracks the
distance traveled by your computer mouse, and the number of times you click
it, and periodically reports that information to the project server. You can
compete against other project members and teams, and you can win a prize if
you are the first person to reach a distance goal. The project is just for
fun. The project's current distance goal is around the world.
The client is currently available only for Windows. The latest version of the client is available as of October 30, 2003. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 238,700 Km. (148,321 miles) total distance |
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Track your computer's uptime (the time it has been running
since it was last restarted) in the
Uptime Project. Note that the website
is written in German, but babelfish
provides a reasonable
translation. The client periodically reports your computer's uptime to the
project server. You can compete against other project members and teams in
the stats. This project is just for fun.
Version 0.22 beta of the client is available for Windows. Version 0.4.0 of the client is available for Linux and FreeBSD. Join a discussion forum about the project (via a link on the project website). The discussion forum is in German. |
ongoing: 3820y 2d 06h 44m 58s total uptime by 18,869 users |
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  Help The ESP Game label images on the Internet. The project presents a Java applet game to volunteers. A pair of volunteers is shown a series of images and must type the same one-word description of an image within a time limit. The more images the pair tags, and the faster they type the same description, the more points they score. Each volunteer's points accumulate. The project associates a set of one-word descriptions for each of the images it indexes. The images can be searched through the project site. To participate in the project, sign up for a user account, then click on the Play Now button. Your browser should load a Java applet in a new window and provide further instructions for playing the game. |
ongoing: 5,718,712 images labeled |
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