Crowdsourced Science

[MaxBuck]

Fascinating stuff. Essentially, science is being done via data analysis by untrained citizens - sort of the "roomful of trained monkeys" approach. There are a lot of parallels with Wikipedia.

crowdsourced-science-success-einsteinhome-participants-find-a-pulsar/

 

[Saw31]

Fascinating stuff. Essentially, science is being done via data analysis by untrained citizens - sort of the "roomful of trained monkeys" approach. There are a lot of parallels with Wikipedia.

crowdsourced-science-success-einsteinhome-participants-find-a-pulsar/

Very cool. Here's one I've heard about that uses the same idea of volunteers' computers to help science...

http://folding.stanford.edu/

 

[Muck]

No love for Seti@home?