Myriad Computers Around the World Join to Solve Problems Piece By Piece
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By Valarie Potell, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 6--Dan Duncan works all day and helps fight AIDS at night -- or at least his computer does.
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By The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 10--Apolitician couldn't get far today promising a chicken in every pot or even a car in every back yard, but with the revolution in computer technology, there could be a contemporary equivalent: a computer and Internet access in every household.
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IBM and officials from leading science, education and philanthropic organizations yesterday launched a global grid computing project aimed at helping solve a variety of health issues and other scientific problems.
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THE modern PC is a marvel, isn&#39;t it? Here&#39;s a machine that lets an ordinary person with very little training create a new document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically
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Several companies are creating online systems to let ordinary people create useful computer applications by combining different information sources.
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Some computers can beat grandmasters at chess. Others can compose music.
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Newer computer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software and programmers are having a hard time keeping up.
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IBM has launched a network to harness the power of idle computers around the world. It&#39;s trying to create one massive PC to help out in scientific research in what could become the world&#39;s largest public computing grid.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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The cluster of 20 computers working as one will be used to speed up spacecraft design, environmental prediction and other research.
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When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation. Then he imagines what will happen when they all can talk to one another.
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IBM and several of the world&#39;s leading scientific and philanthropic groups this week launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer&#39;s to disaster forecasting.
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US IT giant IBM and a number of research organisations have launched the World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world&#39;s most difficult health and
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Chips that help a computer's main microprocessors perform specific types of math problems are becoming a big business once again.
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By CATE DEVINE  EDINBURGH University is to be home to the one of the world's most advanced supercomputers. And even though the most Luddite of technophobes might not yet know it, this is excellent news not only for Scotland but for the entire world.
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Soon millions of the data-collection devices will be scattered around the world, but there are still many obstacles to the networks.
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For weeks now, bits and pieces of Valve Software&#39;s &quot;Half-Life 2,&quot; one of the year&#39;s most hotly anticipated computer games, have been trickling onto nearly 2 million computers around the world.