before ccitt allowed mail they invented teletex. not to be mixed up with teletext, though. | thanks for the hint ;)

In Europe most research projects in the area of Office Information Systems are concentrated around public communication services and transmission networks. Very few projects exist in what we call the Automated Office of the Future. | naja naffah, office information systems research and development, SIGOA conference, 1982, acm lib.

not only lend your computer but your brain.

one example recently popped up at acm: Foldit, gaming for cure:

Two years ago, University of Washington researchers launched a project to harness the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems. The game, called Foldit, turns difficult molecular biology problems into a game similar to Tetris. The researchers found that human players did better than computers on problems that required radical moves, risks, and long-term vision, all qualities that computers do not possess | technews

others are:

Bossa: middleware for volunteer thinking, brought to you by david p. anderson, the guy who also started the seti movement and boinc.

the citizen cyberscience community meets in london, 2-3 of septembre.

actually an interesting thought:

"you might almost say the story [of the eu grid project egee] is a little bit like the analogy of OSI: struggling, and suddenly something comes which is much better and cleaner and that is 'the cloud'; the cloud allows what the grid dreamed of."

for me the cloud follows the concept of timesharing. now, the internet might have been the new timesharing model, but i am not sure if the cloud should be the new model for the internet. some say it looks like the old ptt telephone model.

a brief history, 2008 | cloud journal

¿who invented virtual computing?