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Subject: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 07:09:47 08/31/01

 The other day while driving home from work and listening to NPR(National Public
Radio) the discussion was about a group of scientists at MIT who had succesfully
tricked thousands of computers into performing very deep calculations for them
and receiving the results with no assistance or agreement from the computer
owners. The only catch was the computers needed to be online all the time. I
only caught the end of this discussion. Does anyone know about such an
experiment?


  I am not sure about any laws regarding this. Could computer chess use this?


Ed

Re: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate Vincent Diepeveen 05:56:37 09/01/01
Re: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate Uri Blass 08:07:00 08/31/01
- Re: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate Miguel A. Ballicora 14:31:49 08/31/01
Re: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate Slater Wold 07:54:35 08/31/01

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