The Great Volunteer

Volunteer computing

The explosive growth of interest in platform-independent programming languages for the WorldWide Web , such as Sun Microsystems' Java, is opening exciting new possibilites in parallel computing. This thesis will present and investigate the idea of volunteer computing, which will allow people to volunteer their computers' processing power towards solving a large parallel problem by simply visiti...

Volunteer Monitoring

A Place for the Volunteer

Voluntary work in the mental health field can be used most effectively if it is organised by full-time professional staff. Authorities who, for any reason, cannot appoint an organiser should find out if any member of their staffs is willing to organise and, if necessary, train volunteers for such work. These were two of the propositions which emerged at the annual conference of the namh Norther...

Running Head: VOLUNTEER COMPUTING GAMES Volunteer Computing Games: Merging Online Casual Gaming with Volunteer Computing

We describe volunteer computing games, a new paradigm for computing which merges volunteer computing and online casual games. In volunteer computing, the main goal is to harness the computational power of many users’ computers to solve a large computational problem. Unfortunately, participants in volunteer computing come from a very limited demographic—primarily middle-aged male computer expert...

The Great Barriers to the Commercialization of Sport Management Knowledge

 The aim of this study was to analyze the great barriers to the commercialization of sport management knowledge. The present study was descriptive-analytic that was conducted as a field. The statistical population included sport management experts who had the proper knowledge, experience and expertise in sport management and commercialization of knowledge. A researcher-made questionnaire was us...