distributed computing - the evolution of internet intelligence

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parasitic computing

• Parasitic Computing - the web page from the University of Notre Dame's Parasitic Computing Team. Team members include Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Jay Brockman, Hawoong Jeong and Vincent Freeh
  
• Parasitic Computing, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Vincent Freeh, Hawoong Jeong, Jay Brockman, Nature 412, p. 894 - 897, 30 August 2001. (412894a0_fs.html from Nature, password required.
  
• Parasite corrals computer power, John Whitefield, Nature, Science Update, 30 August 2001.
  

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distributed computing

• PCs tapped to help fight anthrax, CNN News, January 22, 2002 Posted: 12:16 PM EST (1716 GMT). Source: AP
  
• Use your PC to fight cancer, hunt aliens and more, Kevin McKean and Richard Baguley, CNN News, May 21, 2001 Posted: 10:39 a.m. EDT (1439 GMT). Includes links to
  
  
  
  • Distributed.net: Testing different types of encryption by trying to decrypt messages
    
  • Entropia: Various projects, including finding a cure for AIDS and predicting the stock market
    
  • Folding@home: Solving how proteins are manufactured
    
  • Genome@home: Creating new proteins and genes that may lead to new cures for diseases
    
  • GIMPS: Trying to find the next largest prime number
    
  • Golem@home: Testing new robot designs by creating computer-generated robots that evolve
    
  • Popular Power: Testing new flu vaccines to find a cure
    
  • SETI@home: Searching for signs of life in outer space