Guest post by James Bradley DreamLab is a volunteer computing app developed by the Vodafone Foundation, in partnership with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. It uses the idle processing power of smart phones and tablets to speed up cancer research. With the app you can help accelerate cancer genetics and drug research while you […]
Previously, I’ve discussed citizen science projects that you can join. Today, I’m going to talk about some tools you can use to create your own citizen science project. Pybossa Pybossa bills itself as “the only open source framework for making crowdsourcing projects.” The goal of the software is to allow organizers to complete huge tasks […]
Pity your local weather forecaster. Rarely praised when correct, often vilified when wrong, weather forecasting is one of the most thankless jobs around. There’s at least one company that hopes to change all of that. Cumulonimbus Software, a Canadian company led by Jacob Sheehy and Phil Jones, has teamed up with Cliff Mass, a University of Washington […]
BOINC, which is short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is a piece of software that you can download to your computer. With it, you’re able to donate spare computing time to big data projects, essentially allowing your computer to do your citizen science for you. Until recently, the software was only available for […]