A group of students has put their computers' idle time to work curing cancer and saving the environment. Students that join the initiative started last month by freshman Brian Pilchik can download a ...

Idle grid computing — applying unused computer time to a task — is a great solution in need of a problem. Hundreds of millions of computers sit unused two-thirds of the day. Most of these PCs have the ...

Finding that people do not use “stand-by” and “hibernate” when going away from their PCs, for fear of disrupting running network connections and background computations, Microsoft Research India has ...