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Citizen Science and Grid Computing

Posted by kdawson on from the greyware-network dept.

japonicus writes "The Economist has an article summarizing the current state of distributed computing (think SETI@home and its ilk), which suggests that distributed-human projects are going to be the next big thing. (We discussed one such project, the Galaxy Zoo, a few months back.) The distributed-computing platform BOINC is about to expand to human processing. Distributed proofreaders have been a longstanding success (yet inexplicably failed to get even a mention in the article); but there are a lot of other projects waiting in the wings."

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  1. Wow by moogied · · Score: 4, Funny
    The economist, a magazine respected all around the world, has just published an article that concludes: "Two heads are better then one."

    Hmph..

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  2. Re:My problem with grid computing by EMeta · · Score: 3, Funny

    But now it is winter, so my computer is at worst a badly directed space heater.