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Splatometer Results In
Ximbiot writes "The results from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds's "splatometer" are in. BBC news has the scoop. The "splatometer" was featured in this earlier /. article." -
Splatometer Results In
Ximbiot writes "The results from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds's "splatometer" are in. BBC news has the scoop. The "splatometer" was featured in this earlier /. article." -
Splatometer Results In
Ximbiot writes "The results from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds's "splatometer" are in. BBC news has the scoop. The "splatometer" was featured in this earlier /. article." -
"Splatometer" Allows Distributed Bug Reports
Snags writes "The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK has invented a device they call a Splatometer. According to the BBC, the Independent, and others, they are planning to ask people all around the country to mount the device on their cars. Then, after a journey, it gets sealed and sent to a lab where the number and kind of bug splats are analyzed. This sounds like distributed data collection to me, taking advantage of the unused resources (bumper surface area) of a benevolent population, like SETI@Home does with CPU cycles. I wonder if they've considered some form of distributed analysis as well."