Here's a 20min video of François Grey of CERN's LHC talking about the evolving science of volunteer computing. He brings up many good points.

http://www.liftconference.com/distributed-computing-distributed-thinking

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Obviously, time limits what he can include in such a presentation, but I felt he could have alluded to the educational value of DC. I, for one, know vastly more about proteins and protein folding, (for example), now then I did a few years back, indeed, I was spurred into writing my own protein folding algorithm, (a generational, genetic evolver)! It is my participation in DC projects which has been the root of that.

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