MetaFilter posts tagged with computers and research

Give a hoot, use your computer!

mosch — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:59:11 -0800

The World Community Grid is a project to use spare CPU cycles to help the world. The Grid is Windows only, but Folding@Home is a cross-platform way to spend your extra CPU cycles, in an effortless (for you) quest to cure disease. And of course there's the original donated cycle project, SETI@home.

But can they blog?

Steve_at_Linnwood — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:27:08 -0800

Apparently monkeys cannot write Shakespeare.

andrew cooke — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:00:09 -0800

this childs game (java applet) is so complex you could use it to construct a computer. the original paper (postscript), is heavy going - if you're not a compter science student but would like to understand more try this wonderful book by one of the authors (example pictures).

Eloquence — Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:42:16 -0800

MIT's Erotic Computation Group. "By developing advanced sexual appliances and techniques, we seek to broaden the range of human amative expression and heighten our potential for sexual gratification." Good to see that at least some people are doing research that will benefit all mankind.

skallas — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:17:14 -0800

Two months from illiterate to MP3 trading hax0rz. Very cool social experiment showing how easy today's GUIs are to use, especially for kids.

Steven Den Beste — Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:11:35 -0800

Lynn Conway is one of the major talents in the history of the development of computers, responsible for major advances without which computers we buy now would be much different. She's also a transsexual, born physically male. While working for IBM she had her sex-change operation, and IBM immediately fired her for it.

scum — Fri, 01 Sep 2000 06:41:37 -0800

Clicking for consciousness Depressingly reductionist. It is wrong to think that if we can't tell the difference between a binary machine in a box and a person in a box we should behave as if there were no difference.