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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND CITIZEN SCIENCE
Distributed Computing Projects
These projects require little effort on your part; you simply download some software and allow the project to borrow some of your computer time while your computer is idle.- List of distributed computing projects (Wikipedia)
- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: Search for new prime numbers.
- SETI@Home: Search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.
- Einstein@Home: Search for gravity waves.
Citizen Science Projects
These projects involve your active involvement as a scientist, and are available in a variety of different fields. You'll receive some training in how to do the work and can do as much work as you wish. The data you analyze is of real use to the scientific community.- Zooniverse: List of several citizen science projects
- List of citizen science projects from Scientific American
- Stardust@Home: Search for samples of solid matter from outside the solar system
- Galaxy Zoo: Classify galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope images
- Planet Hunters: Search for extrasolar planets.
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