| Project Information | Project % Complete | Major Supported Platforms | |
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Participate in Mindpixel, a
project in which you can help teach an artificially intelligent computer
program to think more like a human by asking it questions.
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ongoing: 1,424,178 mindpixels | N/A | |
Help teach computers to understand human "common sense"
in the Open Mind Commonsense
project, a
project which will create a repository of basic human knowledge.
Users can participate in many activites from describing the things that someone should know to fully understand an event to explaining the relationship between a pair of words or to describing a picture. This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing: 11,682 registered users have submitted 612,419 items. | N/A | |
Help teach computers how to interpret English words with multiple meanings in the context of sentences
in the Open Mind
Word Expert project. Users can play a free word game to teach computers
about word meanings.
In July, 2003, this project began similar foreign-langauge projects:
This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help teach computers about every-day things
in the Open Mind 1001
Questions project. Users teach Learner, an Artificial Intelligence
system, by choosing a topic to talk about and answering questions that Learner
asks about the topic.
This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help proofread electronic texts for
Project Gutenberg at
Distributed Proofreaders. To participate,
create an account, then select a proofreading project from a list. A
proofreading interface is displayed in your web browser, and you can
proofread pages for the project one at a time. The project has personal
stats pages and rankings for proofreaders so that each proofreader can see
how he or she is doing compared to other proofreaders. You can also become
a project manager and prepare proofreading projects for the site, and
you can reassemble proof-read projects for submission to Project Gutenberg.
On February 19, 2003, the project completed its 1,000th book. In August, 2003, the project set a record of 129,273 pages proofread in one month. On September 3, 2003, the project completed its 2,000th book. On October 15, 2003, Project Gutenberg published its 10,000th ebook, a goal which was set in 1971. Join a discussion forum about this project. Audio versions of some of the books in Project Gutenberg are being created in the Radio Gutenberg project. |
ongoing: 2,882 books completed | N/A | |
Help NASA mark craters on images of Mars in the
Clickworkers project.
Note: this web-based project requires you to have Netscape 6, Mozilla, or
Internet Explorer version 5 or greater.
The pilot project concluded in June, 2001. You can see the results of the study. It isn't known when or whether a new project will begin, but you can still try the tasks that were done in the pilot study. You can also try some other activities for fun:
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waiting for next project to begin | N/A | |
Contribute a verse to a song about the New Economy at
Geektones - Gods of the New
Economy distributed songwriting project. This isn't a serious project,
but it's funny :-)
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ongoing | N/A | |
Track how many keys you type in
Project Orca. The Win32 client
tracks your total number of keystrokes and periodically reports that total
to the project server. You can compete against other project members and
teams in the stats. This project doesn't really contribute to the greater
good of humanity (unless it makes us use more calories by typing more);
it's just for fun. The project is a continuation of the original
Project Dolphin.
Version 0.96 of the client is available as of January 20, 2003. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 8,040,023,675 total keystrokes by 4,848 users, 362.86 average keys/second |
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Tiny KeyCounter
is another project which lets you track your total
number of keystrokes and periodically reports that total to the project
server. It also tracks the number of times you press a mouse button or the
mouse scroll-wheel. You can compete against other project members and
teams in the stats. The project is just for fun.
Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing |
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Project Dolphin
is the old
Project Dolphin, restarted
by a new project coordinator. It lets you track your total number of
keystrokes and periodically reports that total to the project server. You
can compete against other project members and teams in the stats. The
project is just for fun.
Version 0.95 of the client is currently available. |
ongoing: 8,453,272,516 total keys |
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 Projet Marmotte tracks the
distance traveled by your computer mouse and periodically reports that
distance to the project server. You can compete against other project
members, teams and countries in the stats. The project is just for fun.
The website is written in French, but
babelfish provides a reasonable
English translation
 of it.
Version 2.2 of the client is currently available. |
ongoing |
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You can help test beta version 6 if you are interested. |
ongoing | N/A | |
Help teach indoor mobile robots to be
smarter in the Open Mind Indoor
Common Sense project. This project will create a repository of knowledge
which will enable people to create more intelligent mobile robots for use in
home and office enviornments. The person who contributes the largest number
of reasonable entries each week during August, 2003, will win a t-shirt.
This project is part of the OpenMind Initiative to develop "intelligent" software. |
ongoing: 376 registered users have submitted 23,071 items. | N/A | |
BeWeS MouseTracker tracks the
distance traveled by your computer mouse, and the number of times you click
it, and periodically reports that information to the project server. You can
compete against other project members and teams, and you can win a prize if
you are the first person to reach a distance goal. The project is just for
fun. The project's current distance goal is around the world.
The client is currently available only for Windows. The latest version of the client is available as of October 30, 2003. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 28,543 Km. (17,697 miles) total distance |
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