Distributed Human Intelligence

Distributed computing doesn't have to be powered by silicon.

Todays internetworked society allows us to use the power of the crowd to compute. Already this computer-assisted crowdsourcing is being used in astronomical sciences, linguistics and translations, and more.

Stardust@Home

Search aerogel for intersteller dust particles. If you're the first one to spot a dust particle, you get to name it!

Galaxy Zoo

Classify galaxies from deep space images.

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Find and classify craters and other geological features on Mars