Millions of personal computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide. During this idle time, the mysteries of science and space continue to elude us. What if each of the world’s estimated 650 million PCs could be linked to focus on humanity’s most pressing issues?

To make this vision a reality, The Charles Smith Foundation has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of more than 160 foundations, academic institutions, companies and associations. The Charles Smith Foundation is encouraging its staff and grantees to contribute their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.

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IBM Technology Day Feburary 23, 2008

In 2007, a group learned to build structures using sticks and marshmellows for balance to hold objects of various weights.