Programmer speeds search for gravitational waves
A global effort to detect gravitational waves has received an unexpected boost after a volunteer improved the computer code used comb through data from ground-based detectors.

Akos Fekete, a Hungarian programmer, is one of network of people who contribute their spare computer processing power to a project called Einstein@home, launched by the American Physical Society (APS) in March 2005. This links volunteers' PCs via the internet and uses their combined power to probe for data patterns that could reveal gravitational waves.

I think that school children will grow up donating computer time

I don't think so - not as long as people and institutions at the receiving end pay so little respect and attention to the users as Institute of Systems Biology do. Would a good teacher recommend to a student to seek contact with or contribute to protein scientists who behave like they do not know the chemical formula of the amino acid, glutamine. Which is shown for everyone to see in the Project Informations given as an overview of the Human Proteome Folding Project. There are several weeks since I made a contribution in the Forums pointing to this fact. But the institute has not lifted a finger to excuse and correct their mistake. It is acceptable that people make a mistake, but not to correct it is something I will not use the right word to characterize. The unfortunate result is that the bad impression is transferred to the whole wcgrid. I may put it on suspend and go to a different protein folding project. Because I consider it important calculations to do. Maybe I should mention that I am close to the middle of my sixtieth decade and was in charge of the Amino Acid Laboratory at the Agricultural University of Norway close to three decades ago. I also have my name on a few scientific publications from U. of California, Riverside. The latter not in the field of amino acid or proteins. Now I am just Wood chopper.