Hi John,
I also "donated" much of my computer's time
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea what my stats are, but
it's around 4 or 5 thousand hours.
I don't know how we could use this technology
in psychology, but I know that Google is testing a
similar type of program for "Protein Structure
analysis". If you download their toolbar for Windows
Explorer http://toolbar.google.com/ you may be "the
lucky one" to get the extra icon that shows a string
of DNA (or so it looks like that).
Google was piloting that project a while back.
I'm not sure where they're at with it. But the
movement is growing. Only makes sense to me... But
this will likely raise issues of pirating. Could be a
great way to infect computers...
To come back to psychology, this may be used
for brain mapping? I'm looking forward to hearing from
otehrs on this...
Cheers!
Jean-Marc
--- "John W. Nichols, M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: > I have been involved with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the
past
> 4.449 years (talk about
> anal retentive) and have completed almost 9,300 work
> units for the
> project. I am at the 99.668th %-ile among the
> 4,729,551 people in the
> world who are currently involved in the effort to
> locate the little
> green guys.
>
> I was reading an article about BOINC (
>
http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Update_092503.html
> ), a system that "will make it possible for
> researchers in areas as
> diverse as molecular biology, climatology, and
> astrophysics to tap into
> the enormous but under-utilized calculating power of
> personal computers
> world-wide." It was developed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] project
> director David
> Anderson and his crew at Berkeley, and is currently
> in Beta testing. It
> will not be long before it is available to use in
> research by others.
>
> I am wondering if there are any ideas floating
> around out there in
> TIPSterville for psychological research that could
> benefit from the
> combined power of thousands of computers in a
> distributed computing
> network, as [EMAIL PROTECTED] has done. We might not get
> 4.7 million computer
> owners involved (unless the research has something
> to do with sex), but
> I suspect that thousands of psychologists might be
> willing to
> participate. That would be a lot of computing
> power! Is there anything
> in the field of psychology that needs that kind of
> computing power?
>
> If not now, maybe the combined brain power of all of
> the citizens of
> TIPSterville can come up with something that needs
> that sort of analysis
> some time in the future.
>
> Relevance to teaching? Many years ago, in
> introducing Freud's
> psychoanalytic theory, I began pointing out to my
> students that he had
> earned a place in the history of psychology if for
> no other reason than
> that he had developed the biggest, broadest, most
> complex personality
> theory in the field. And, that nobody has been dumb
> enough to try to
> match his effort in the last 100 years. (Hey, on a
> good day, I could
> keep them over 15 minutes past the end of the class
> -- with the setup
> alone.) I pointed out that all the other
> personologists since Freud had
> been smart enough to be satisfied with the
> development of "mini"
> theories, which focus on much narrower features
> personality.
>
> I posited that the development of a truly "grand
> theory of personality"
> would have to await the development of computers
> beyond the scope of
> what we could imagine a few years ago. That no
> single human brain could
> handle all the variables that would have to be
> considered at the same
> time in order utilize that theory. (I always
> pointed out that I could
> appreciate just how thankful they were that my
> "grand theory" had not
> yet been developed, and therefore would not be on
> the next exam.)
>
> Could BOINC be in our future?
>
> (Maybe a BOINC table at NITOP? I am still hoping to
> go.)
>
> --
>
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> Sometimes you just have to try something, and see
> what happens.
>
> John W. Nichols, M.A.
> Assistant Professor of Psychology
> Tulsa Community College
> 909 S. Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119
> (918) 595-7134
>
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