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Astronomers Draft 10,000 Volunteers to Find Dark Energy in Nearly 250,000 Galaxies; an overview of new Zooniverse project Dark Energy Explorers | Tech Times | December 27, 2022 |
‘Billion Molecules Against COVID-19’ Challenge to Launch with Massive Supercomputing Support | HPCwire | April 22, 2020 |
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer | Ars Technica | April 14, 2020 |
Shuttered Chicago museums join COVID-19 fight with high-tech tools | Chicago Tribune | April 13, 2020 |
Coronavirus: how your computer could help find a vaccine | Financial Times | April 6, 2020 |
Folding@Home Reaches Exascale: 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 Operations Per Second for COVID-19 | AnandTech | March 26, 2020 |
SETI@Home Is Over; The Fight Against COVID-19 Coronavirus Is Just Beginning | Forbes | March 15, 2020 |
Coronavirus - What we’re doing and how you can help in simple terms | Folding@home | March 15, 2020 |
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 | ScreenRant | March 15, 2020 |
Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@home | Unraid | March 13, 2020 |
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 | OneZero | March 12, 2020 |
Seti@home is on Pause. Unfortunately, it’s not Because They’ve Discovered Aliens | Universe Today | March 10, 2020 |
How you can use your computer to help fight COVID-19 coronavirus | ZDNet | March 10, 2020 |
Call to spot spider monkeys to help tackle habitat loss | BreakingNews.ie | March 5, 2020 |
After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations | The Register | March 4, 2020 |
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19 / 2019-nCoV | Folding@home | February 27, 2020 |
New Project - Hawk Talk | Daily Zooniverse | January 25, 2019 |
Public Gets Chance to Earn Block Rewards by Donating Computing Power to Scientific Research | Cointelegraph News | January 15, 2019 |
Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet | EarthSky | January 13, 2019 |
Volunteer scientists play important role in wildlife research project | Grand Forks Herald | January 4, 2019 |
OpenZika Team Adds New Resources to Continue Massive Data Analysis | World Community Grid | December 20, 2018 |
The Easiest Side Hustle Ever? Renting Out Your Phone When You're Asleep | Inc. | November 8, 2018 |
From cancer to climate change: The tech you can use to save the world | Alphr | October 15, 2018 |
Citizen Scientists Give New Life And Value To Old Astrophotos; an overview of the Astronomy Rewind Zooniverse project | SpaceRef | October 9, 2018 |
Be A Part Of New Drug Discovery: the Conduit platform will make for-pay computing resources available to biotech companies | Forbes | October 28, 2018 |
Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Unravel the Mysteries of South Sudan's Forests; an overview of the South Sudan DiversityCam Zooniverse project | PR Newswire | September 6, 2018 |
Science Edition: Citizen Science (audio) | Voice of America News | July 27, 2018 |
Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing | coindesk | July 24, 2018 |
Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research | Silicon Age | July 20, 2018 |
Cryptocurrency Mining is Hampering the Search for Alien Life | EdgyLabs | June 28, 2018 |
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 | Network World | April 9, 2018 |
What you don’t know could hurt your computer | Manila Times | April 4, 2018 |
Citizen scientists join in search for exoplanets | NewsOK | March 6, 2018 |
What is 'cryptojacking' and why you need to worry about it | Firstpost | March 3, 2018 |
Volunteers are wanted to transcribe justices' notes from SCOTUS conferences | ABA Journal | February 16, 2018 |
Crypto Mining Gets in the Way of E.T. Search: Cryptocurrency miners and their demand for GPUs are interfering with the search for alien life | ABA Journal | February 15, 2018 |
Blockchain startup Aura will offer gaming rewards for your idle computer time | VentureBeat | February 15, 2018 |
U of M crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices’ handwritten notes; an overview of the new SCOTUS Notes project | Geographical | February 13, 2018 |
Salon Asks Users to Mine Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Ad-Free Site | ExtremeTech | February 13, 2018 |
Ready, set, Zooniverse: Calgary's citizen-science link goes live | metro News Calgary | February 13, 2018 |
Let’s Talk About Bitcoin’s Insane Energy Consumption | SingularityHub | February 5, 2018 |
Get your phone solving cancer on World Cancer Day (and after) | pickr | February 4, 2018 |
It’s a movement: Amateur scientists are making huge discoveries | big think | February 3, 2018 |
UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids | Engadget | February 2, 2018 |
Crowdsourcing just found an entire star system | SyFy | January 25, 2018 |
The K2-138 system: the first exoplanet system discovered by citizen scientists | NASA Spaceflight | January 20, 2018 |
Planets around other stars like peas in a pod | 10000 Couples | January 16, 2018 |
Sofa Conservation: How many elephants can you see? How many orangutans are in that tree? New conservation projects are hoping the answers to these questions can help protect endangered species around the world | Geographical | January 15, 2018 |
Amateur Astronomers Discover ‘Unusual’ Five-Planet System Using Zooniverse And Kepler Data | Inquisitr | January 12, 2018 |
Citizen scientists discover five-planet system | phys.org | January 11, 2018 |
Power-Hog Bitcoin May Find Answers in Scientific Bounty Hunt | swissinfo.ch | January 11, 2018 |
Kelp, Spacecraft, and You | Deep Sea News | January 9, 2018 |
Computing project finds largest known prime number | TribLive | January 8, 2018 |
We Have A New Prime Number, And It’s 23 Million Digits Long | FiveThirtyEight | January 5, 2018 |
FedEx Employee Discovers Largest Prime Number Ever at 23 Million Digits Long | The africom | January 5, 2018 |
Eclipse Megamovie project seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos | phys.org | January 5, 2018 |
Your Computer Can Volunteer, Too | Discover Magazine Blogs | January 4, 2018 |
9 Ways You Can Use Your Devices for Advanced Scientific Research | SingularityHub | December 31, 2017 |
How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life | GeekWire | December 29, 2017 |
Looking Up: Search for extraterrestrial life continues | ChicoER | December 28, 2017 |
Chief AI Scientist: Bitcoin Mining Could Power Scientific Research | btcmanager.com | December 28, 2017 |
Research For All (a poem) | The Poetry of Science | December 15, 2017 |
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 | consultancy.uk | December 8, 2017 |
Analysis Underway on 30 Terabytes of Data from the Uncovering Genome Mysteries Project | World Community Grid | November 24, 2017 |
Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees: an overview of the Amazon Aerobotany project | Mongabay News | November 7, 2017 |
Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin | The Sociable | November 6, 2017 |
Saving the world with spare computing power; a short overview of World Community Grid | IBM Blogs | October 24, 2017 |
Here’s how citizen scientists assisted with the disaster response in the Caribbean | The Conversation | October 18, 2017 |
Your Computer Might Be Working for Currency Miners: Some call it malware, but it could be great for internet publishers | Bloomberg | October 13, 2017 |
Using AI, citizen science and disaster response to help victims of Hurricane Irma | phys.org | September 20, 2017 |
You can help Boston map the entire human microbiome: Scientists want to study how the human microbiome bacteria in our bodies affect our health, but they need you to lend your computer's power to do so | Metro | September 5, 2017 |
Listening to Starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligence | Engadget | May 25, 2017 |
Planet Nine Breakthrough? Four Candidates Located | Science World Report | April 5, 2017 |
Search for elusive Planet 9 gets a crowdsourcing boost: It seems to be lurking far beyond Pluto. Major efforts are now underway to find it thanks in part to citizen science platform Zooniverse and the BBC. | CNet | March 31, 2017 |
2 Unusual Ways To Earn Cryptocurrency Using Just Your Laptop or PC | Live Bitcoin News | March 22, 2017 |
Finally, a use for your mobile phone: Snapping ALIEN signal blurts; Citizen science project to find galactic bursts using selfie-taking pocket radio receivers | The Register | February 15, 2017 |
IBM wants your help to find new cancer cures using your computer or android smartphone | Tech2 | February 1, 2017 |
Donate Your Computer’s Spare Time to Science | New York Times | October 20, 2016 |
New Project--Gravity Spy! | Daily Zooniverse | October 12, 2016 |
Orlando volunteers aid Zika research | Orlando Sentinel | September 10, 2016 |
As UK Reports More Zika Cases, IBM Offers Up Free Technology To Fight Virus | TechWeek Europe | July 29, 2016 |
foldit's Tuberculosis Challenge begins | foldit | July 12, 2016 |
Citizen science fosters collaboration: A new crowdsourcing platform helps citizens and scientists work together; an overview of Zooniverse projects | Minnesota Daily | July 6, 2016 |
You can help decipher Civil War telegrams | The State Journal-Register | June 26, 2016 |
Your smartphone can fight Zika virus; a short overview of World Community Grid's OpenZika project | Business Recorder | June 25, 2016 |
Can the smartphone cure Zika? | Tech Crunch | June 24, 2016 |
Crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decode U.S. Civil War telegrams | University of Minnesota | June 21, 2016 |
Scientists need your help: Identify species with Zooniverse | ScienceNetwork Western Australia | June 15, 2016 |
SETI Gets an Upgrade: If we broaden our search, will we hear aliens? $100 million says yes | Air and Space Magazine | June, 2016 |
Your Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika | The Atlantic | May 24, 2016 |
IBM uses supercomputing power for Zika research | ZDNet | May 21, 2016 |
Citizen scientists aid Ecuador earthquake relief: Effort to identify damaged areas combines crowdsourcing with machine-learning algorithms | Nature | May 3, 2016 |
That mighty thud was CERN dropping 300TB of raw collider data to the Internet | ExtremeTech | April 26, 2016 |
How Technology is Fighting Against Tuberculosis | NewsWatch | April 20, 2016 |
IBM, University of Nottingham initiate tuberculosis study | BioPrepWatch | April 5, 2016 |
Billionaire’s Huge New Alien-Hunting Project To Scan Stars For Life Next Year | Yahoo! News | December 29, 2015 |
The Strongest Supercomputer on Earth Still Needs Your Laptop to Cure Cancer: Volunteer computing and BOINC, once the future of research, are an ocean of unrealized promise. Why? Its creators don't have a way to reach out to you. | Inverse | December 20, 2015 |
How to Start Volunteer Computing in 2016: BOINC and World Community Grid volunteers are working to save the world. Joining them is easy. | Inverse | December 16, 2015 |
Volunteers Donate PC Power | Gulf Times | November 25, 2015 |
Did SETI@Home ever find aliens using your old computer? | Yahoo! News | October 29, 2015 |
Want to help make the next newsbreaking science find? Become a citizen scientist; an overview of Zooniverse projects | Examiner | October 17, 2015 |
Gridcoin -- A Crypto that Empowers Scientific Research | NewsBTC | October 11, 2015 |
So You Want to Be a (Citizen) Scientist? | Huffington Post | September 29, 2015 |
Now You Can Help Scientists Track Animals In Mozambique From Your Sofa; an overview of Zooniverse's WildCam Gorongosa project | Gizmodo UK | September 10, 2015 |
SETI reborn: The New Search for Intelligent Life | Astrobiology Magazine | September 10, 2015 |
WildCam Gorongosa: Help Tag Animal Selfies to Support Conservation in Africa | HHMI News | September 8, 2015 |
A funding breakthrough for SETI | The Space Review | August 17, 2015 |
Happy Birthday, Einstein@Home | LightReading | August 14, 2015 |
Turbo-Charging the Hunt for ETs: This Will Give our Decade a Shot at Cosmic Stardom; some of the data from Breakthrough Initiatives, a new, larger, SETI listening project, will be processed by SETI@home | California Magazine | July 27, 2015 |
Stephen Hawking plans to find aliens using our Android smartphones; some data from Breakthrough Initiatives, a new, larger, SETI listening project, will be processed by SETI@home on the BOINC distributed computing platform | geek.com | July 24, 2015 |
Disaster Response in Nepal and The Zooniverse; an overview of how Zooniverse responded to requests for help with the Nepal disaster and how it may be able to help with future disasters | Zooniverse Blog | May 13, 2015 |
How can your computer help find a cure?; an overview of World Community Grid | IBM | April 28, 2015 |
Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls"; The Milky Way Project volunteers have identified objects which are in the early stages of massive star formation | NASA Science | April 9, 2015 |
Citizen scientists earn their stripes with tiger-tagging app; an overview of the new Wildsense project | International Science Grid this Week | April 8, 2015 |
Number-crunching Higgs boson: meet the world’s largest distributed computer grid | The Conversation | March 12, 2015 |
Top distributed computing projects still hard at work fighting the world's worst health issues | IT World | March 9, 2015 |
Help New York Build a Digital Time Machine: The New York Public Library needs a hand with its ambitious "Google Maps of yesteryears" project | CityLab | February 26, 2015 |
Seven quadrillion comparisons later, Uncovering Genome Mysteries is just getting started; an update on the Uncovering Genome Mysteries project | World Community Grid | February 26, 2015 |
Estes Park participating in World Community Grid effort | Estes Park Trail Gazette | February 16, 2015 |
Using one cancer to help defeat many: Mapping Cancer Markers makes progress; an update on the Mapping Cancer Markers project | World Community Grid | February 12, 2015 |
Making progress against two of the world’s deadliest diseases; an update on the GO Fight Against Malaria project | World Community Grid | February 11, 2015 |
Charity Engine Debuts Million-Core Challenge; Charity Engine will donate 1 million core-hours of CPU processing to each of three distributed computing projects | HPC wire | February 9, 2015 |
Computing for Clean Water on the road to publication; an update on the Computing for Clean Water project | World Community Grid | February 9, 2015 |
Clean Energy Project team continues to make progress; an update on the Computing for Clean Energy project | World Community Grid | February 6, 2015 |
UW researchers developing treatment for Celiac Disease; researches at the University of Washington used the Foldit tool to discover an "enzyme that will break down gluten in the stomach, allowing those diagnosed with Celiac disease to safely digest gluten. The enzyme, KumaMax named from the model enzyme [the] team used called Kumamycin, will be in pill-form." | The Daily of the University of Washington | January 28, 2015 |
Using grid computing to understand an underwater world; results from World Community Grid's Computing for Sustainable Water project | World Community Grid | January 28, 2015 |
CITIZEN SCIENTISTS LEAD ASTRONOMERS TO MASSIVE STAR COCOONS: Mystery Objects Are Missing Link in Star Formation in Our Galaxy | Nasdaq Globe Newswire | January 28, 2015 |
Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space; volunteers from The Milky Way Project have given astronomers a "new way to detect the early stages of massive star formation" | Jet Propulsion Laboratory News | January 27, 2015 |
Sony launches Folding@home initiative for smartphones--curing disease with your phone | Ausdroid | January 13, 2015 |
New mobile app from Stanford and Sony lets your phone conduct research on breast cancer and Alzheimer's while it charges; Folding@home will now run on Android phones | Stanford University News | January 12, 2015 |
How Scientists Plus Zooniverse Ended Up w/Floating Forests Project | Satnews Daily | January 12, 2015 |
Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Try it, you might like it | PLOS Blogs | January 12, 2015 |
Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Classify Possible Planetary Habitats; an update on the Disk Detective project | NASA News | January 6, 2015 |
Help Fight Ebola With Your Smartphone; an overview of the Outsmart Ebola Together project | IGN Africa | December 22, 2014 |
Help cure Ebola by donating your smartphone's idle time | Engadget | December 19, 2014 |
How Your Tablet Can Help Find an Ebola Cure: Anyone with a computer or Android smartphone can perform cutting edge research on the formidable virus | TIME | December 19, 2014 |
New imaging tools accelerate cancer research; an update on the Help Conquer Cancer project | World Community Grid | December 15, 2014 |
Donate Processing Time to Fight Ebola | Scientific Computing | December 10, 2014 |
Podcast: Citizen Science Answering the Call; an overview of distributed computing projects | Physics Central | December 10, 2014 |
Student’s project probes black holes, galaxies: A physics student’s research is using scientific crowdsourcing to better understand how black holes form; an overview of a Galaxy Zoo sub-project | Minnesota Daily | December 10, 2014 |
Volunteer computing: 10 years of supporting CERN through LHC@home; an update on the LHC@home project and the ATLAS@Home project | International Science Grid This Week | December 3, 2014 |
Help researchers find an Ebola cure; an overview of the new Outsmart Ebola Together project | World Community Grid | December 3, 2014 |
IBM helps you donate computer power to fight Ebola; an overview of Outsmart Ebola Together | WRAL.com | December 3, 2014 |
You Can Help Physicists Make the Next Higgs Boson Discovery; an overview of the new Higgs Hunters project | Wired | December 3, 2014 |
Zennet Uses Blockchain Technology to Pay for Distributed Computing; the Zennet project proposes to create a for-pay distributed computing market using a new Zencoin cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin): people can pay distributed computing project participants in Zencoin | cryptocoins news | December 1, 2014 |
Mine for Citizen Science!: Gridcoin and FoldingCoin aretwo new projects which may contribute resources to distributed computing projects while generating Bitcoins | cryptocoins news | November 24, 2014 |
Crisis mappers turn to citizen scientists: Crowdsourced disaster surveys strive for more reliability in online collaboration | nature.com News | November 19, 2014 |
Digitised WW1 diaries highlight battle confusion; results from Operation War Diary show a different version of events in the war | BBC News | November 8, 2014 |
Collect call from E.T. Do you accept the charges? an overview of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and SETI@home | EarthSky | November 4, 2014 |
Zooniverse: Asteroid Zoo | Scientific American | November 4, 2014 |
Happy Halloween! Going Batty for Citizen Science | Zooniverse Blogs | October 31, 2014 |
Crowdsourced DNA Project to Speed Up Research; an overview of the an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project | Idea Connection Blog | October 27, 2014 |
No Time To Volunteer? Let Your Computer Do It; an overview of the BOINC distributed computing platform and some of the projects it supports | Popular Science Blogs | October 25, 2014 |
Community Grid Fosters Microbial Discovery; an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project | HPCwire | October 22, 2014 |
Distributed computing project enables UNSW's DNA research: Project will enable 20 quadrillion comparisons of 200 million DNA proteins in months; an overview of the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project | CIO Australia | October 22, 2014 |
Brian Cox’s guide to becoming a citizen scientist: The internet and technology have opened up opportunities for amateur scientists - you may discover new planets or species | The Guardian | October 14, 2014 |
Citizen science - from studying bees or seaweed to solar storm-watching : The range of projects that you and your family can get involved with is staggering, and the potential rewards are immense | The Guardian | October 14, 2014 |
The Sound of Science! 5 Citizen Science Projects That Need Your Ears; links to SETI@home and 4 other projects which need volunteers | PLOS Blogs | October 7, 2014 |
Zooniverse: Floating Forests; an overview of Zooniverse's new Floating Forests project | Scientific American | October 7, 2014 |
Global computer network powers research: The World Community Grid makes cancer research faster and more efficient | The Varsity | October 5, 2014 |
Chicago Wildlife Watch Recruits Chicagoans to Help Conduct Urban Wildlife Research: The Adler Planetarium and Lincoln Park Zoo collaborate on new web-based platform that engages the public from home or classroom in scientific research through photo identification technology | Virtual-Strategy Magazine | September 12, 2014 |
Xennet wants YOUR machines for tradable supercomputer cloud: SETI@home, Bitcoin the inspirations | The Register | August 20, 2014 |
Alien Artifacts On The Moon?; SETI researcher Paul Davies suggests that a crowd-sourced visual search of images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) could find artifacts left by alien civilizations (if there are any) | Forbes | July 23, 2014 |
Crowdsourcing + Science = Results; an overview of Chris Lintott, his Zooniverse project, and crowdsourcing scientific research | ozy | July 22, 2014 |
Astronomers invite you to help name exoplanets and their stars; a new web platform called NameExoWorlds, being developed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and Zooniverse, will allow the public to help name distant planets and stars | EarthSky | July 9, 2014 |
UR tests app for donating excess space on cellphones; the University of Rochester is testing a computer application called the Green Energy Mobile Cloud which will let mobile phone users donate their phones' spare computing power to distributed computing-based research projects | Democrat and Chronicle | July 6, 2014 |
Australia’s alien UFO hunters number 34,000 and use 85 million computer hours; an overview of SETI@home and Australia's participation in it | news.com.au | June 29, 2014 |
Planetary Resources and Zooniverse Launch Asteroid Zoo, A Citizen Science Asteroid Challenge; an overview of the new Asteroid Zoo project | Bellevue Business Journal | June 24, 2014 |
Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks; an overview of the new Asteroid Zoo project | SPACE.com | June 24, 2014 |
How Your Idle Computer Can Help Fight Alzheimer’s Disease; an overview of the new Compute Against Alzheimer's Disease project | CIO Blogs | May 14, 2014 |
Your Computer Downtime Could Help Crack the Alzheimer’s Code; an overview of the new Compute Against Alzheimer's Disease project | re/code | May 11, 2014 |
Search for Malaysia Airlines plane turns to crowdsourcing for clues | The Sydney Morning Herald | March 11, 2014 |
HTC phone users to power up scientific research; an overview of HTC's Power To Give project | phys.org | February 25, 2014 |
HTC wants to combine all your Android phones to cure diseases; an overview of HTC's Power To Give initiative and its Google Play app that does distributed computing on your Android phone when it is plugged in to charge and is connected to WiFi | Engadget | February 24, 2014 |
Breakthrough in the fight against childhood cancer; World Community Grid's Help Fight Childhood Cancer project has found seven promising drug candidates to fight neuroblastoma and has published a paper about the results | World Community Grid | February 20, 2014 |
Donate your computing power; short overviews of several major distributed computing projects | iafrica.com Technology | February 20, 2014 |
Computer sharing loses momentum: Competition and education needed to keep people engaged | Nature | February 4, 2014 |
Mapping Cancer Markers project launch; an overview of the new Mapping Cancer Markers project | World Community Grid | November 26, 2013 |
Home computers discover gamma-ray pulsars; Einstein@Home has discovered four new gamma-ray pulsars | phys.org | November 26, 2013 |
Computing to find cures; a description of how distributed computing is used to find cures for diseases and an overview of Folding@home | The Hindu | October 15, 2013 |
Data+ Awards: Harvard's Clean Energy Project gets a massive speed boost: Computing grid accelerates data sharing among scientists; using the computing resources of World Community Grid allowed The Clean Energy Project to complete 17,000 years of computations in 3 years | ComputerWorld | August 26, 2013 |
Crowdsourcing the Stars | The New Yorker | May 1, 2013 |
Across the Zooniverse--keeping an eye on citizen astronomy | Science Alert | April 23, 2013 |
U.S. Used 'Distributed Intelligence' to Investigate Boston Marathon Bombing | Wall Street Journal Blogs | April 22, 2013 |
Across the Zooniverse: Keeping an eye on citizen astronomy; amateur astronomers in Russia discovered the remains of the Soviet Mars 3 lander from images from HiRISE | phys.org | April 19, 2013 |
Citizen science: Go ahead, try this at home; an overview of several Distributed Human projects which need more participants | Computerworld | April 19, 2013 |
Science: Citizens getting back to basics; part 2 of a 7-article series investigating the rise of citizen science | rabble.ca | April 19, 2013 |
Citizen Scientists: Future looks bright for DIY tech; part 1 of a 7-article series investigating the rise of citizen science | rabble.ca | April 17, 2013 |
Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells: Some day, inkjet-type printers could pump out solar cells | Computerworld | April 16, 2013 |
Is This the Long-Lost Soviet Mars 3 Lander? | Discovery News | April 15, 2013 |
NASA’s orbiter possibly spots lost 1970's Soviet lander; a Russian crowd-sourcing effort may have found the remains of the Soviet Mars 3 spacecraft on Mars | Slashgear | April 11, 2013 |
25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders | Slashdot | April 10, 2013 |
Android Phones Used By Scientist In Exploring The Universe; a new BOINC client for Android phones will allow them to contribute processing to Einstein@Home | The Droid Guy | March 30, 2013 |
Long-shot distributed data center project in Canada like SETI for mobile; California company LeoNovus wants to make all of the idle computers in Stratford, Ontario work together as a single distributed data center | gigaom | March 7, 2013 |
Distributed computing for the greater good | ZDNet | March 1, 2013 |
Zooniverse: Real Science Online | muse magazine | March, 2013 |
Distributed Computing Meets Drug Discovery; an overview of the new Quantum Cures project | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | February 28, 2013 |
Facebook, Google tech gurus to design cancer research game | Yahoo! News | February 28, 2013 |
Pearls across the Zooniverse: When Crowdsourcing Becomes Citizen Science | Yahoo! News | February 28, 2013 |
Map the Planets and Moon Zoo Join Forces to Explore Lunar Craters: the new Map the Planets project is using result data from Moon Zoo to build automated systems to detect and classify craters in images of the Moon and eventually the planets in our solar system | Earth and Solar System Blog | February 19, 2013 |
Crowd-Sourced Einstein@Home Data Analysis Discovers New Pulsars; Einstein@Home has discovered 24 new pulsars, 6 of which are binary | Physics Central - Physics Buzz Blog | February 12, 2013 |
New 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime; an overview of GIMPS's discovery of the 48th knwn Mersenne prime | New Scientist | February 5, 2013 |
Largest prime number found--and it's 17,425,170 digits long | NBC News | February 2, 2013 |
2.5 Million Computers Give PetaFLOP/s Power to Einstein@Home, Other Projects | Singularity Hub | January 30, 2013 |
Citizen scientists blaze trails, help find new planets; an overview of Zooniverse and some of its projects | Medill News | January 30, 2013 |
The 3Rs: Citizen science in the classroom; defining the rules that make a citizen science project appropriate for the classroom | British Science Association | January 30, 2013 |
Eagle Eye on AmCan: Zooites, slide rules and Goldilocks planets: a short overview of "Zooites," volunteers for Zooniverse projects | Napa Valley Register | January 17, 2013 |
Planet Hunters find new planets: Jupiter-sized one may have habitable moons | The Space Reporter | January 14, 2013 |
Amateur astronomers discover 42 alien planets: an overview of the recent Planet Hunters discovery | MSNBC | January 13, 2013 |
Citizen Scientists | Health News Digest | January 12, 2013 |
Researchers Crowdsource Mars Image Study: Citizen scientists will be the first people to see much of Mars' southern pole; an overview of the new Zooniverse project: Planet Four | the escapist | January 9, 2013 |
Desktop power helps map protein dance; Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy has captured all of the possible molecular and atomic connections between 2,280 human proteins "known to mutate and induce different forms of neuromuscular disorders, including Muscular Dystrophy." | International Science Grid This Week | January 9, 2013 |
Planet Four and Stargazing Live; a short overview of new project Planet Four | Zooniverse Blog | January 8, 2013 |
Call for public to study Mars images; an overview of new project Planet Four | BBC News | January 7, 2013 |
15 new planets hint at 'traffic jam' of moons in habitable zone | e Science News | January 7, 2013 |
Citizen Science, Citizen Policy | Scientific American Blogs | January 7, 2013 |
This Wind Tunnel-Cooled Computer Is Helping Conquer Cancer | Gizmodo | January 4, 2013 |
The petaflops of citizen science; Einstein@Home has more than 1 PetaFLOPS of computing power for the first time | IT Knowledge Exchange | January 3, 2013 |
Help Herschel identify holes in space; an overview of The Milky Way Project's 'Clouds' subproject | SEN News | January 3, 2013 |
Oxford University helps take a "snapshot" of Serengeti life | Cherwell.org News | December 29, 2012 |
NASA Launches New Citizen Science Game 'Clouds' | crowdsourcing.org | December 24, 2012 |
NASA Releases a Game to Crowd-Source Cloud Classification; an overview of NASA's new Zooniverse project, an update to The Milky Way Project to identify clouds in galaxies | WebProNews | December 20, 2012 |
Minn. researchers launch citizen science project Snapshot Serengeti; an overview of the new Zooniverse project, Snapshot Serengeti | Minnesota Public Radio | December 12, 2012 |
‘Citizen scientists’ classify wildlife: The U’s Lion Research Center gets help analyzing animals in Tanzania | Minnesota Daily | December 12, 2012 |
Your Help Needed to Study Andromeda Galaxy; an overview of the new Zooniverse project, The Andromeda Project | space.com | December 10, 2012 |
Crowdsourcing the cosmos: Astronomers welcome all to identify star clusters in Andromeda galaxy; an overview of the new Zooniverse project, The Andromeda Project | Space Daily | December 7, 2012 |
Attacking Cloud Browsers for Distributed Computing | Overclockers Club | November 30, 2012 |
Citizen Scientists Combine to Identify Effective Cancer Treatments; an overview of ClicktoCure | PSFK | November 12, 2012 |
Citizen science project crowdsources identification of cancer cells; an overview of the new Zooniverse project, ClicktoCure | Wired UK News | October 24, 2012 |
NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic; Old Weather is transcribing weather data from ship logs from Arctic sea voyages back to 1850 | NOAA News | October 24, 2012 |
Sony Removes Folding@home From PlayStation 3 | The Escapist | October 22, 2012 |
Volunteers Help Discover Extra-Solar Planet; citizen scientists discovered a new planet in Planet Hunters | Voice of America Blogs | October 17, 2012 |
Zooniverse lets citizen scientists analyze large datasets | AAAS MemberCentral | October 8, 2012 |
Zooniverse: Web-Scale Citizen Science; a presentation about Zooniverse by Zooniverse's Technical Lead, Arfon Smith | Speaker Deck | October 4, 2012 |
Become a Bat Detective; an overview of new Distributed Human project Bat Detective | scistarter | October 1, 2012 |
Zooniverse Designates This Month 'Citizen Science September'; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's Citrizen Science September initiative: "New projects. More science. All month long." | crowdsourcing.org | September 19, 2012 |
Help Oceanographers Comb the Ocean Floor From the Comfort of Your Screen; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Distributed Human project: Seafloor Explorer | Popular Science | September 13, 2012 |
Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans: Crowdsourcing can create an artificial chat partner that's smarter than Siri-style personal assistants. | Technology Review | September 10, 2012 |
I, for one, welcome our new machine collaborators; Galaxy Zoo Supernovae ended on August 3, 2012. Data from the project trained machines so well that they are currently better than humans at identifying supernovae in images. The project may be restarted in the future with a combination of machine and human identification of supernovae in images or with humans identifying supernovae in images that are difficult for machines to analyze. | Zooniverse Blog | August 3, 2012 |
Wishing the Zooniverse a Happy 5th Birthday! | Universe Today | July 5, 2012 |
We need more smartphone-based citizen science | Wired UK News | June 5, 2012 |
Idle Home Computers Being Tapped For Global Social Innovation Solutions; a short overview of Charity Engine and other projects | Justmeans | May 24, 2012 |
Anyone out there?; an overview of "citizen science" projects, Zooniverse and SETILive | Oman Tribune | May 19, 2012 |
'Citizen science' tracking climate change; an overview of "citizen science" crowdsourcing projects | UPI | May 18, 2012 |
Citizen Science Test Drive: Flex your inner-astronomer's muscle with Zooniverse; an overview of Zooniverse's "citizen science" projects | scistarter blog | May 17, 2012 |
Overclockers to fight for global supremacy: Keep an eye on your servers as 'Chimp challenge' hits Folding@home; the annual "Chimp challenge" lets overclockers compete to see how much work they can contribute to Folding@home in 10 days | The Register | May 14, 2012 |
Crowdsourcing tool tapped to spot malaria; an overview of UCLA's new Biogames online citizen scientist game/tool to diagnose malaria | FierceBiotechIT | May 8, 2012 |
Lens Zoo is Coming!; Zooniverse is creating a new project to search for gravitational lenses | Galaxy Zoo Blog | May 3, 2012 |
Music fans asked to catalogue 4,000 Victorian scores; an overview of Zooniverse's new project What's the Score at the Bodleian? | Wired UK | May 3, 2012 |
TheSkyNet set to conquer more of our Universe; theSkyNet is working with Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC) to process data from its telescope | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research | May 3, 2012 |
Game on! UCLA researchers use online crowd-sourcing to diagnose malaria: Gaming system a new step for telepathology and other telemedicine fields; an overview of UCLA's new Biogames online citizen scientist game/tool to diagnose malaria | UCLA Newsroom | May 2, 2012 |
Citizen scientists search for alien life: Amateur astronomy buffs find common goal in just a few clicks; an overview of SETILive | Chicago Tribune | April 26, 2012 |
Chatterbox whales say what?; an overview of Whale FM | phys.org News | April 23, 2012 |
Whale.FM: Where Citizen Science, Whale Songs, and Education Come Together; an online discussion about Whale FM | Scientific American Blogs | April 19, 2012 |
IBM Enables Water Quality Predictions For Major Waterways in Partnership Between World Community Grid And University of Virginia: 90 years of research collapsed into 12 months by using the power of two-million computers; an overview of the new Computing for Sustainable Water project | The Sacramento Bee | April 19, 2012 |
Unbeatable; a short history of one of the earliest online crowdsourcing projects: The Internet FreeCell project | The Gameological Society | April 12, 2012 |
Bringing Out the Hidden Scientist in You: Zooniverse--a citizen science project review | The Epoch Times | April 4, 2012 |
Forecasting a warming world via thousands of PCs: Citizen-scientists, volunteers donate computing time for climate research; recent results from climateprediction.net | ComputerWorld | April 2, 2012 |
Taiwanese Students Use Personal Seismic Sensors to Monitor Earthquakes; an overview of a new earthquare detection project in Taiwain, similar to Quake Catcher Network | Popular Science | March 26, 2012 |
Pocket-sized sensors bring earthquake science to schools; an overview of a new earthquare detection project in Taiwain, similar to Quake Catcher Network | International Science Grid this Week | March 21, 2012 |
In Search for Alien Life, Researchers Enlist Human Minds; an overview of SETILive | New York Times | March 21, 2012 |
Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science | The Guardian | March 18, 2012 |
A bubbly Milky Way; a discussion of interesting results from MilkyWay@home | Astronomy Now | March 9, 2012 |
Citizen scientists reveal a bubbly Milky Way; participants in MilkyWay@home have "discovered more than 5,000 'bubbles' in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles into surrounding gas and dust, indicating areas of brand new star formation." | Physorg.com | March 7, 2012 |
Seti Live website to crowdsource alien life: A website has been launched that aims to get the public involved in the search for extraterrestrial life; an overview of the new SETILive project | BBC News | February 29, 2012 |
SETI Institute Teams Up With Zooniverse to Empower Citizen Scientists in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Huffington Post | February 29, 2012 |
Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing | Popular Science | February 7, 2012 |
Stargazing viewer in planet coup: The public push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result. | BBC News | January 18, 2012 |
Volunteers wanted for planet hunt; an overview of the Planet Hunters project | BBC News | January 15, 2012 |
Charity Engine: The Ethical Supercomputer That Can Win You $10,000: The company sells your donated processing power to organizations for cheap. In exchange for your generosity, you can win yourself a nice bundle of cash. | Co.Exist | January 12, 2012 |
Berkeley's BOINC Reaches 2B Results Milestone for SETI@Home; the BOINC computing client for SETI@home has contributed its 2 billionth result to the project | tom's GUIDE | January 9, 2012 |
Charity Engine: The Even Cheaper Cloud Supercomputer?; a short overview of the new Charity Engine project | Talkin' Cloud | January 6, 2012 |
World Community Grid, your good deed for the day; an overview of World Community Grid and how to participate in it | MyBroadband News | December 25, 2011 |
Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season; a short overview of the new Charity Engine project | TechCrunch Europe | December 23, 2011 |
Charity Engine: Donate spare PC power and stand a chance to win $1m | TNW | December 14, 2011 |
This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more | TNW | December 11, 2011 |
Cancer Research 'to double size of datacentre'; UK charity Cancer Research, which receives computing help from World Community Grid has doubled its data center size to 200 square meters and grown its total number of processing cores from 500 to 13,000 | BCS | December 9, 2011 |
Video game players advancing genetic research; an update on the Phylo project | McGill News | December 6, 2011 |
Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria; an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project | The Daily CrowdSource | December 6, 2011 |
Protein-Folding Modeling For New Therapeutic Approaches; Folding@home has developed the new Copernicus framework to utilize supercomputers efficiently for protein folding simulations | MedIndia | November 23, 2011 |
Spare a little computing power to fight malaria; an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project | CNET News | November 21, 2011 |
theSkyNet comes alive: SKA-related 'citizen science' project seeks participants | TechWorld Australia | November 19, 2011 |
New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers | Stanford News | November 18, 2011 |
Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower's Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB; Harvard researchers were able to use hundreds of nontechnical workers through the Crowdflower crowd-sourcing site to examine thousands of images of Tuberculosis (TB) cells to study the effectiveness of various treatments for only pennies per image and to reduce the research time to a few weeks | Forbes | October 26, 2011 |
Help NASA Train Astronauts Underwater; an overview of Zooniverse's first lab project: | KQED Blogs | October 21, 2011 |
Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing | Discovery News | October 12, 2011 |
Accelerate physics with your own computer; an overview of the new LHC@home 2.0 project | International Science Grid this Week | October 12, 2011 |
Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project: You Can Help Too!; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | treehugger | October 5, 2011 |
Columbian scientists tap global computer network in search of leishmaniasis drugs; an overview of World Community Grid's new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project | NewsMedical | October 4, 2011 |
Put computer downtime to good use; an overview of distributed computing projects | Times & Transcript | October 1, 2011 |
Scientists use global computer network to find leishmaniasis drugs; an overview of the new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project | Science and Development Network | September 30, 2011 |
NASA Looking for Useful Smartphone Apps for Vast Data; an overview of NASA's International Space Apps Challenge | Christian Post | September 29, 2011 |
SETI Projects Weather Recession | Sky and Telescope News | September 20, 2011 |
Gamers Solve Decade Old HIV Puzzle in Ten Days | ZME Science | September 20, 2011 |
Puzzle Gamers Solve Scientific Mystery that Could Help Cure AIDS: Players of an online game have helped model the structure of an enzyme which has stumped scientists for over a decade | GamePro | September 19, 2011 |
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle | The Age | September 19, 2011 |
Gamers succeed where scientists fail: a detailed overview of Foldit players' recent discovery of the correct structure of an enzyme, related to AIDS, which scientists have not been able to understand for over a decade | ScienceBlog | September 18, 2011 |
Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | Energy Matters | September 14, 2011 |
WA astronomers to crowdsource data processing; an overview of theSkyNet | itnews Australia | September 14, 2011 |
IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment: To use IBM's World Community Grid for collapsing 100 years of research into just two; over two-million Leishmaniasis sufferers worldwide | IBM | September 13, 2011 |
How SETI@Home Screens ET Candidates: SETI@Home volunteers have found 4.2 billion signals of interest since the project began in 1999. What happens to them? | Technology Review | September 13, 2011 |
Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy: TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets | ComputerWorld Australia | September 13, 2011 |
Solar-Panel Researchers Need Your Computers; | Wired Magazine | September 13, 2011 |
Millions of molecules screened in search for the ideal organic solar cell material; a detailed overview of The Clean Energy Project | Physorg.com | September 12, 2011 |
CPUsage: Let Your PC Earn Money for You; an overview of the upcoming cpusage project | Technabob Blog | August 26, 2011 |
Passive Collaboration: Add Your Processing Power to the Crowd; an overview of distributed computing projects | The Daily CrowdSource | August 24, 2011 |
You can be a Citizen Scientist!; an overview of distributed human and distributed computing projects | io9 | August 22, 2011 |
Searching for cheap solar cells in computer models; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | CNET News | August 18, 2011 |
Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results: Theoretical screening method produces first sample molecule as researchers analyse 3.5 million candidates for solar cells | Nature | August 16, 2011 |
Join the hunt for the Higgs boson; an overview of the Test4Theory@Home project | R&D | August 11, 2011 |
LHC@home: Help CERN find the God particle | ExtremeTech | August 11, 2011 |
Huge Atom Smasher Seeks Citizen Cybersleuths; an overview of the Test4Theory@Home project | LiveScience | August 10, 2011 |
Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls; an overview of the new Zooniverse project: Ancient Life | SlashDot | July 26, 2011 |
Lego folding farm fights cancer, looks good doing it; a computer with a case made of Legos is processing work units for World Community Grid | Engadget | July 18, 2011 |
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Gravitational Waves; an overview of gravitational wave astronomy and Einstein@Home | Universe Today | July 16, 2011 |
Early quake alerts: Simulation modeling could enhance earthquake detection, warnings; an overview of Quake Catcher Network | University of Delaware UDaily | July 15, 2011 |
Tapping Social Media's Potential to Muster a Vast Green Army; an overview of the citizen science phenomenon and several distributed human projects | Reuters | July 13, 2011 |
'Citizen-seismologists' sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers; an overview of Quake Catcher Network | Stanford University News | July 7, 2011 |
A supercomputer made of unused PCs; an overview of distributed computing projects | CNN Money | June 24, 2011 |
Snap a Photo and Help Measure Earth's Albedo; an overview of a one-day distributed human project to measure Earth's albedo on the Summer solstice | TalkingScience | June 15, 2011 |
US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets; SETI@home participants will eventually be able to process data being collected in a new SETI search at the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia | Physorg.com | May 14, 2011 |
Researchers Ask For Help From Your Home Computers; an interview with David Anderson, founder of the BOINC distributed computing platform | LiveScience | May 5, 2011 |
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 |
Watson Sparks Interest in Humanitarian Computing: IBM's World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer for humanitarian challenges, is benefiting from Watson's success on TV's Jeopardy. One day after the Jeopardy tournament, donations of unused PC time jumped 700 percent. IBM's World Community Grid tackles problems like water purification, cancer research, and HIV/AIDS treatments. | NEWSFACTOR.com | February 24, 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 |
Virtual thinkers solving real world problems; an overview of the first Citizen Cyberscience Summit | New Zealand Herald | September 8, 2010 |
MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids; an overview of the MapRejuice distributed computing client for web browsers | Technology Review | September 3, 2010 |
Home Computers Dredge Up Weird Pulsar; Einstein@Home discovered an odd pulsar | Sky and Telescope | August 17, 2010 |
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