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As SETI@Home continues to search for intelligent life in the universe, OpticsPlanet incentivizes donations with exclusive coupon offers. Northbrook, IL (PRWEB) July 03, 2012 OpticsPlanet.com helps amateur and professional astronomers discover new features of the cosmos with their selection of telescopes, astronomy binoculars, spotting scopes and star maps, but the search goes on for extraterrestrial intelligence. By teaming up with SETI@Home, OpticsPlanet helps bring additional funding...
Project to use 2 million PCs to crunch numbers, compress 100 years of research into just one LA JOLLA, Calif. and ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IBM's Watson computing system broke new ground earlier this year when it defeated two celebrated human competitors on the Jeopardy! game show. Now, The Scripps Research Institute is hoping to do something equally novel but more critical to human health with part of the prize money from that tournament: Find a cure for...
LONDON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the imminent F8 Facebook music sharing announcement, industry analyst Mark Mulligan interviews Adam Kidron, CEO of Boinc, which is set to launch its new device-based social music service in coming months. The two discuss: The ever-changing music industry market dynamicsThe importance of a social element in musicBoinc's device-based offeringAdam Kidron: "We're going to democratize music consumption. By embedding licenses into devices, we're...
MEDELLIN, Colombia, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and University of Antioquia's Tropical Disease Study and Control Program (PECET) today announced a joint research project, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, using computer power from IBM's World Community Grid. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) World Community Grid pools and uses the idle computing power of volunteers' personal computers around the world to help accelerate scientific research that...
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Watson wasn't the only computer system that won this week when it competed successfully against two human champions on the Jeopardy! game show. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) The other computing system is called World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer that helps scientists solve humanitarian challenges by tapping the unused computing power of personal computers around the world. Scientists who use World...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics today announced that its VAIO® computers now come equipped with IBM's World Community Grid software, helping provide scientists around the globe with the computing power to help solve humankind's biggest challenges. All fall line-up of Sony VAIO® PCs - excluding laptops with Intel Atom based processors notebooks - will come equipped with World Community Grid software that users can opt to run. Once activated, the software...
ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM's (NYSE: IBM) World Community Grid, a worldwide network of PC owners helping scientists solve humanitarian challenges, today announced several computing projects aimed at developing techniques to produce cleaner and safer water, an increasingly scarce commodity eluding at least 1.2 billion people worldwide. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists "“ a German and an American couple "“ have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first deep-space discovery by Einstein@Home, which uses donated time from the home and office computers of 250,000 volunteers from 192 different countries. (Science Express, Aug. 12, 2010.)The citizens credited with the discovery are Chris and Helen Colvin, of Ames, Iowa and Daniel...
ARMONK, N.Y., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scientists have devised a way to automate and accelerate a manual, complex process that enables researchers to more easily discover the structure of cancer-related proteins, and, eventually, formulate cancer cures. This new, automated approach may also help the exploration of other diseases and food-related research. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
LA JOLLA, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A team of researchers at the renowned Scripps Research Institute has discovered two new compounds that prove the existence of new binding sites on HIV protease. Associate Professor C. David Stout, senior author of the study, explained "These results open the door to a whole new approach to drug design against HIV protease," which is an enzyme used by HIV to create new, infectious viral particles. To view the multimedia assets associated...
