From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 05:02:50 PST
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From: Louis Friedman -The Planetary Society<mailto:tps.mbl_at_planetary.org>
To: Planetary Society<mailto:planetarysociety_at_lists.planetary.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: You Made a Difference -World Community Grid
Dear Planetary Society Members, supporters
and SETI@ home volunteers,
We're always telling our Members and supporters that
"You Make it Happen." And here's proof you do!
Media around the world just broke the story of the
World Community Grid, a massive project that will use
the Internet in cutting-edge health sciences research.
This is a direct descendant of SETI@ home, the project
that you made happen.
MSNBC reports that the World Community Grid, developed
in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health,
the World Health Organization, the United Nations and
other organizations, "owes a debt to SETI@ home, which
in the 1990s first popularized the notion that PC users
could donate computer time for radio telescope astronomy
data analysis via the Internet."
This exciting new project will, according to the New York
Times, help "unlock the genetic mysteries of illnesses
like AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, malaria and cancer."
Your support for SETI@ home has also flowered in the
creation of Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network
Computing, affectionately known as BOINC, which also
boasts innovative projects, including:
- Einstein@ home, a project that investigates the
fundamental structure of time and space in the universe
by looking for pulsars based on their gravity-wave emissions;
- PlanetQuest, which is seeking extrasolar planets by
searching astrophotographs for occlusions; and
- LHC@ home from CERN (the famous laboratory located near
Geneva, Switzerland), a project that is optimizing the
design of the world's largest particle accelerator.
None of this would be happening without your support.
Five years ago, when SETI@ home first went looking for
sponsors, just about no one saw the great potential
this software possessed for making a difference in
this world. No one, except for the Planetary Society
and its Members, that is. The Society, as the project's
founding sponsor, got it off the ground.
The Planetary Society - with Members and supporters
around the world - really does make it happen.
Thank you!
With best wishes,
Louis Friedman
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