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Cancer, climate change or malaria: Donate your unused power to research
News The grid-computing application Progress Thru Processors, which people can download from social-networking site Facebook, allows users to donate spare computing cycles to research into climate change, cancer and malaria. [05 Aug 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken US education system, Gates has managed to fulfil a dream of taking some classic physics lectures and making them available free over the web. [16 Jul 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News Adam is a still a prototype, but King's team - which is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - says they believe their next robot, Eve promise for scientists searching for new drugs to combat diseases such... [03 Apr 2009]
How global computing grid could save the world
News Computing grids are already combating diseases: in 2007, the Egee analysed the potential effectiveness of 300,000 possible drug components against the bird flu virus H5N1 and in a project that ran until January last year, the Wisdom grid... [20 Oct 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo Its global forecasts saves lives by helping humanitarian agencies such as the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation predict and prepare for severe droughts, excessive rainfall or outbreaks of diseases such as malaria. [06 Jun 2008]
Apple: Meet the new iPods...
News A new Product Red Shuffle will benefit a program fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Apple has announced a complete overhaul of its line of iPod portable music players and a significant cut in the price of its... [06 Sep 2007]
Grid boosts efforts to fight malaria
News Scientists working to find effective drugs to combat malaria have enlisted the computing muscle of a grid spanning 28 countries. The international Wisdom project - which ran from 1 October 2006 to 31 January 2007, and... [15 Feb 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 4: Mobile's future killer apps?
Comment Other health-focused initiatives debuting at the show have included a $10m public private partnership to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in Africa, with health workers equipped with mobiles to map disease... [15 Feb 2007]
Leader: Farewell, Bill Gates?
Leader He will also be incredibly visible as the world's largest donor to causes such as fighting malaria and Aids in the developing world. Bill Gates' planned retreat from the frontline of Microsoft's many battles has... [16 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer
Comment You're not the malaria expert. Bill Gates says he is a man with no regrets. After 30 years of leading Microsoft's software strategy, Gates said on Thursday there is little he would do differently. Shortly after... [16 Jun 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Bill Gates
News On a more personal level, Gates has spent more time this year on his philanthropic activities with the donation of $436m to fund research into fighting diseases such as malaria and TB. As the countdown begins to... [08 Sep 2005]
Gates to fund GM bugs
News Providing it to 70 percent of the malaria victims in Africa would cost about $1bn, according to various statistics. It could be used to combat malaria, but it would still be costly. The emerging field of... [14 Dec 2004]
Leader: Stopping unnecessary emails...
Leader It's nothing new to see the prevention of viruses resulting in nasty side-effects - ask anybody who's ever taken Larium for malaria - but the online community was starting to lose patience with the disruption caused by... [11 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Grey goo
Comment The real killers are still malaria, cancer, heart disease, influenza and accidents in the home or while driving. Nanotechnology promises all kinds of advances but some would have us believe it might just destroy the... [07 Aug 2003]
Supercomputer contest: The results
News IBM has just sold one of its Blue Ocean supercomputers to the Naval Oceanographic Office to help with research into finding a vaccine for malaria. NEC has beaten IBM in the battle to build the world's most powerful... [21 Jun 2002]
