Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of BossaIntro


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Feb 9, 2008, 2:23:13 PM (16 years ago)
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    11= Berkeley Open System for Skill Aggregation (Bossa) =
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    3 Bossa is a software infrastructure for creating
    4 projects that use skills or knowledge of large numbers
    5 of volunteers, via the Internet, to accomplish a set of tasks.
    6 This has been variously termed ''skill aggregation'', ''distributed thinking'', and ''human computing''.
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    8 Bossa is designed to accommodate a wide range of tasks.
    9 In particular:
     3Bossa is a software framework for ''distributed thinking'' -
     4the use of large numbers of volunteers to accomplish a set of tasks via the Internet.
     5Bossa accommodates a wide range of tasks:
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    117 * Tasks may be short (performed online via a single web page) or may take several weeks and involve running separate programs.
     
    2218For more information, contact [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/anderson/ David Anderson].
    2319See the [BossaRef reference manual] for details of the current implementation.
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     21 * [BossaTutorial Tutorial]
     22 * [BossaReference Reference manual]
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    2524== Abstractions ==