Skynet wants to take over your computer

[eppur_se_muova]

Skynet seeks to crowdsource the stars (BBC)

Idle home computers are being sought to help search through mountains of astronomical data.

The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as a giant, distributed supercomputer.

PCs joining Skynet will scour the data for sources of radiation that reveal stars, galaxies and other cosmic structures.

People who process the most data could win a visit to one of the observatories gathering data for the project.

Star searchers
The Skynet project is being run by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and it is seeking the help of thousands of PCs to analyse data.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14896330

[Xithras]

1. Too funny.

I wonder if the chose the name to be funny, or if they were genuinely unaware that the name "Skynet" has some negative connotations. :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. But you'd have to have seen T-3 to understand their true agenda,

and who the hell saw T-3?

[DJ13]

3. The computer nerds proposing this would have seen T3

[pokerfan]

4. good name...

[Odin2005]

5. EPIC NAME WIN!