Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid
55827
IBM and top scientific research  organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to  tap the unused power of millions of computers and help solve  complex social problems.
82732
Search for alien life needs more processors SETI@home, the distributed computing project, is calling for more volunteers willing to donate their computers' downtime to the project which scans radio telescope data for evidence of intelligent alien life.â¦
257757
Organizations representing the nation's 3 million scientists, engineers and doctors have invited the two major presidential candidates to have a word with them &#151; online.
131769
The effort is one of the open-source groupâs experiments in improving the user experience as it aims to woo more users from Microsoftâs Internet Explorer.
187327
Organizations representing the nation's 3 million scientists, engineers and doctors have invited both presidential candidates to have a word with them &#151; online.
379463
The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind the technology to agree on standards governing how computers communicate with one another.
207
InfoWorld - Microsoft Research's eScience group is helping scientific researchers use database and online sharing tools in ways they might not have imagined, and sharing those experiences with Microsoft product groups that can tweak their software for easier use by the scientific community.
683941
A new pan-European supercomputing network has opened to help scientists in the EU with their research. &quot;We have just completed testing,&quot; said David Henty of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, a member
592182
Forget matchmaking. Researchers should use social networks to land matching funds. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
22608
Computer users are being asked to donate their unused processor power to help solve social and environmental research problems. The IBM-backed project, called World Community Grid, aims to put the untapped
364158
Quorum sensing, which determines when bacteria communicate to one another, has captured the interest of a new generation of scientific researchers.
489014
A top Google scientist confirms what has been rumored for years: the company improves its search engine by asking thousands of part-time workers to rate Web sites.
415412
This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
505246
A safe place for students to play In a bid to help its students explore the potential of grid computing, the University of Southampton's Computer Science department has developed what it calls a "lightweight grid". The system has been designed to allow students to experiment with grid technology without the complexity of inherent security concerns of the real thing.â¦
593445
MIT researchers used conference badges to collect data on people's interactions and visualize the social network.
84301
Researchers and businesses in West Virginia will be able to access the first state-sponsored public Internet computing grid when the Global Grid Exchange is launched next month.
41643
HP gives Latin lessons in building P2P grid software Brazilian boffins have developed a peer-to-peer grid computing system called OurGrid, which enables members to freely donate and use spare compute cycles.â¦