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Use Your Home Computer to Find a Better Semiconductor and Save the Planet
If you want to be a part of discovering the future of solar power, you can be. You don’t need...
New Computer Chip Modeled on a Living Brain Can Learn and Remember
IBM, with help from DARPA, has built two working prototypes of a "neurosynaptic chip." Based on the neurons and synapses of the brain, these first-generation cognitive computing cores could represent a major leap in power, speed and efficiency
Fruit Flies’ Neural Networks Solve Distributed Computing Problem Better Than Humans
The burgeoning neural networks of fruit fly pupae solve a distributed computing problem, arranging sensory bristles in a very efficient,...
Using Home Astronomy Software, Citizen Scientists Discover New Pulsar
Through the Einstein@Home program, about 250,000 private citizens from 192 countries donate time on their home and office computers to...
Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life
Software designed to detect life in outer space is now being repurposed to look for signs of artificial life developing in complex computer systems on Earth
Folding Proteins On Your Lunch Break
A new online game enlists casual clickers in a research quest for a better understanding of protein folding
SETI’s Other Coup
We might not have yet found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but SETI has more than proven its worth with its success in distributed computing
