Distributed Projects

Media publications

• New York Times: Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower - Brief article describing large volunteer web collaborations: Mindpixel, Open Mind; Open Directory, NASA Clickworkers study (crater identification). Free registration required. (Published 2001.03.08)
• SF Weekly Online: News: A HAL of an Idea - Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help. (Published 2000.11.15)
• Time Europe: Techwatch: Site Seeing - Computers still can't think for themselves. To do that they'd need the cyber equivalent of common sense: the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that humans take for granted. Very brief story on Mindpixel and Open Mind. (Published 2000.09.18)
• Wired News: Two Fake Brains Better Than One - Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation. (Published 2000.09.15)
• Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain - Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC. (Published 2000.09.01)

	Open Mind Initiative URL: http://www.openmind.org/ ODP description: World-wide collaborative effort to develop smart software. Collects information from non-expert Internet users, to teach computers the myriad things we all know and which underlie general intelligence but which we usually take for granted. Several subprojects. Page title: Open Mind
	BlueCat Networks URL: http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/ ODP description: Offers network appliances. The Adonis Server is a DNS Server that lets you configure your DNS in minutes. The Meridius Mail Relay protects your mail servers while increasing mail-processing performance. Page title: DNS management, Network appliances, DNS appliances, DHCP appliances, IPAM appliances - BlueCat Networks Page description: BlueCat network appliances are DNS management, DHCP and IP address management (IPAM) solutions for your constantly evolving enterprise.
	Webstructor World URL: http://www.webstructor.net/ ODP description: Object-oriented knowledge management system. Distributed semantic net. Peer-to-peer knowledge management architecture. 2D and 3D visual ontology editor. High-level object-relational language. Page title: Webstructor Home Page Page description: Distributed visual knowledge editor
	Mizore Artificial Intelligence Project URL: http://mizore.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Two projects Neuralsim and Izumi concerning Artificial Intelligence. Neuralsim is a neural network that attempts to mimic some biological form; Izumi is a text parser concerning natural language processing. It visualizes time-varying linguistic data and draws connections between content. Page title: Mizore AI Project
	BBC: Clicking for consciousness URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/903686.stm ODP description: Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC. Page title: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Clicking for consciousness Page description: Web users are being invited to help create the first model of human thought.
	Genetic Daemon URL: http://geneticd.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: The first genetic engine server, capable to work in a distributed research environment and with parallel processing. Page title: Genetic Daemon - home
	Mandryka : Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. URL: http://www.mandryka.com:8080 ODP description: Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines Page title: Mandryka.com - Welcome to Mandryka.com