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ThinkCycle: Solving World Problems With A Cluster of Brains

Posted by timothy on from the hope-some-good-comes-out-of-it dept.

eaglemoon writes: "ThinkCycle is an MIT Media Lab project to apply SETI@Home principles to design problems for underserved communities. Only, intead of donating spare cpu cycles, you donate spare 'think cycles.' Their aim is to build a community of designers, inventors and innovators that want to collaborate on developing novel solutions to some what intractable problems like clean water access , cholera treatment and appropriate shelters. Their aim is to encourage an "open source" ethos for tough design and technology challenges."

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  1. It's a dirty job, but SOMEONE has to say it... by Gryffin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"

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