Reported January 2008

SCREENSAVERS CAN HELP FROM HOME: Small pox, cancer, and anthrax are just a few of the diseases that are being studied through distributed computing. Volunteers download a small program that activates when their computer is in screensaver mode. The software connects to a research center and gets assigned a small part of a large computation, such as simulating the interactions of a large variety of molecules to find some that could combine to form a cure.

If you would like more information, please contact:

Colleen Monahan
University of Illinois at Chicago
1603 W. Taylor St
Room 1054 (MC 923)
Chicago, IL 60612-4394
(312) 515-1360
cmonahan@uic.edu