Institutional Citizen Science

February 21, 2017Blogsgp

The argument for Big Citizen Science.

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Folding@home Team Hits 250M Points

April 7, 2015News, Projects, Updatesgp

Our Folding@home team has reached 250 million points. Thanks to all participants.

Piper: Minecraft + Raspberry Pi = Learning

March 28, 2015Projectsgp

Piper is a project to unleash creativity and learn electronics and other ‘maker’ skills by playing Minecraft. It uses an innovative direct connection between a prototype board and the game, using a Raspberry Pi.

Piper

scidata

March 9, 2015Blogsgp

Mainly computational citizen science, some history and philosophy of science.

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Quantum Computer Simulator

May 23, 2014News, Updatesgp

Thinking about quantum computing doesn’t need to wait for the revolution http://readwrite.com/2014/05/22/google-quantum-computer-project#awesm=~oF6diGeAVKy4V6

4E4th

April 2, 2014Applications, Projectsgp

A free FORTH intended for education and learning that runs on a $10 experimenter board from Texas Instruments. Also freely available are a Windows IDE and several demonstration programs.

FORTH is a tiny language, with only a few basic concepts, suitable for people who are new to computers. It found success in the 1980s mainly in embedded systems. It also has a proud history in space research and astronomy.

With this extremely inexpensive solution, a wide audience can now learn programming by doing.

Available at 4E4th Website