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Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News Work on building the tech infrastructure will begin in the New Year - starting with the datacentre and software to power the website where people will be able to volunteer to help at the Games, set to go live in July 2010. [27 Oct 2009]
Wikipedia editors to stop vandals messing with articles of the living
News Until approved by the volunteer editor, any changes to such articles will sit on Wikipedia's servers invisible to the public. Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an... [26 Aug 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News I think the effects of any volunteer work take some time to have any effect and it may only be after leaving and returning some time later that you can really see what has been achieved. As part of that, there's also a... [25 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
News The Wikimedia said it plans to use the grant to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, develop training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors, and establish metrics to track the foundation's... [21 Aug 2009]
Cancer, climate change or malaria: Donate your unused power to research
News Matt Blumberg, executive director of GridRepublic, quoted in Intel's statement: "The social and scientific utility of volunteer computing is a function of the number of participants - the more people we sign up, the... [05 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo Airport workers at Manchester and London City airports will be able to volunteer for the cards from later this year and ID cards will be made available to the rest of the UK public from 2012. This is the first glimpse at... [30 Jul 2009]
Biometric scanners to delve inside your brain
News The volunteer's voice, face, heart and brain activity was matched to their record, called up on the computer by an RFID chip carried by the volunteer, and used to verify their identity. Scanners that... [12 May 2009]
Manchester public will get first UK ID cards
News From autumn, Mancunians will be able to volunteer for a card in a strategy to stagger the roll-out of the cards and readers across the UK. Manchester will be the first place in the UK where the public can apply for an ID... [06 May 2009]
Helping Nonprofits to Assist Others Through the Use of Custom ASP.NET Components and Database Report Designer
White Paper Brisinger Group's solutions are primarily DotNetNuke Portal solutions that range from small e-commerce sites to large scale volunteer/employee management systems. Brisinger Group needed to produce quality Rich Internet... [23 Apr 2009]
SmartDraw's Floor Plans Spark Fast Fire Investigations
White Paper Pulling double duty as a volunteer firefighter and a fire investigator for a district of 40,000 residents is no easy task. To handle high-volume fire investigations, Keller needed a fast way to create floor plans for his... [15 Apr 2009]
Photos: Classic Iris radar gets vision back
Photo The reconstruction feat is truly outstanding because these are highly complex systems that were originally put together by experts trained in the intricacies of the technology," Murrell, seen here with TNMOC volunteer... [16 Feb 2009]
Google slimming down six projects
News Social networking and micro-blogging service Jaiku may live on with support from a "volunteer team" of Google employees. In a series of separate posts on official Google blogs, the company announced it is terminating,... [15 Jan 2009]
Powering the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
White Paper The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) wanted to increase processing capabilities to keep up with rapid expansion of the SETI@home volunteer program, which constitutes the largest distributed supercomputer... [01 Jan 2009]
Programming Languages and the Biological Sciences
White Paper Specifically, the OBF grew out of the following volunteer projects: BioPerl, BioJava, and BioPython. This paper will present a brief overview of the various programming language projects that are ongoing in the... [19 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.10.08
Round-Up Alternatively, you could volunteer to actually put the collars on the bears and jaguars… Over the centuries, humankind has turned to animals for a number of purposes. Food, clothing, companionship, more food and sport to... [31 Oct 2008]
