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Volume 17

No. 3  January/February 2002

Surf Sites: Ways to Collaborate

ThinkCycle is one example of a Web site that encourages collaboration to solve problems (see lead article). Other sites promote open source software and hardware, or work to build community knowledge networks. Still other Web sites try to solve computationally intensive problems by using spare processor cycles of thousands of computers, volunteered by those eager to contribute their small share.

To get a sense of how collaboration works on the Web, visit the sites listed below.

Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org/

Distributed Computing
http://www.distributed.net/

Engineers without Borders
http://ewob.colorado.edu/

Honey Bee Network
http://www.sristi.org/honeybee.html

Silver Stringers
http://stringers.media.mit.edu/

Simputer
http://www.simputer.org/

SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/

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