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Tuesday, January 22, 2002
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020122/tc/attack_anthrax_computers_dc_1.html Researchers Recruit PC Users for Anthrax Project AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A group of scientists and major technology corporations asked people around the world on Tuesday to use their personal computers to help develop a treatment for anthrax. Members of the Anthrax Research Project, including chip maker Intel Corp. , software giant Microsoft Corp. , computing services provider United Devices Inc., the National Foundation for Cancer Research and Oxford University, announced the effort in a press release. Individuals can participate in the project by downloading a screen saver at www.intel.com/cure and donating their personal computer's spare resources to build a virtual supercomputer capable of analyzing billions of molecules in a fraction of the time it would take in a laboratory, the group said....
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