Could you please elucidate "...In Watson's Wake, IBM

World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700% ...."

Does this mean that in the coming days we will see roughly 7 times the current 97,000 active users?

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No, the (daily) increment is supposed to grow that amount, not the absolute count.

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Gundolf

BOINC got a mention in PCWorld

as:

10 (ten) Must-Have Downloads for School:

BOINC This screensaver takes idle cycles on your PC and uses them to perform processing for a variety of scientific projects. You'll be able to choose and switch among numerous projects, including efforts to control malaria, search for extraterrestrial life, and help with medical research.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/234969/musthave_downloads_for_school.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/234969/musthave_downloads_for_school.html

BOINC got a nice mention in The Stanford Daily

Inspired by SeisMac, a program that effectively turns Macintosh computers into seismographs, and BOINC open-source software that allows individuals to remotely donate their computers’ unused processing power to researchers, QCN attaches sensors to personal computers to create a low-cost yet dense seismic network.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/07/21/quake-catcher-network-starts-installations
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/07/21/quake-catcher-network-starts-installations

ZDNet 2013-03-01: Distributed computing for the greater good

Edit: And as usual comments on ZDNet are not worth the bits used for transferring them to you...

Wired.com 03/27/2013: Professor Enlists Android Phones in Search for Black Holes

this was picked up by some (non-tech) German online media sites:
Berliner Morgenpost 2013/04/07: Mit dem Handy nach Schwarzen Löchern suchen
Welt.de 2013/04/07: Mit dem Handy nach Schwarzen Löchern suchen

In a Computerworld article titled 18 great uses for an old Android device
That outdated Android device in your closet still has a lot to offer -- if you know what to do with it. Here are 18 excellent ways to give new life to an old phone or tablet.

BOINC is listed at #8: Let it power scientific research

Believe it or not, your clunky old Android device could actually help scientists search for stars and research new treatments for AIDS. It's all part of a program from UC Berkeley called BOINC, or the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.

Comet Likely Didn't Cause Bizarre 'Wow!' Signal (But Aliens Might Have)

An astronomer thinks he's pinpointed the source of a mysterious radio signal from space: a passing comet that nobody knew about. But his colleagues said they're still skeptical of the explanation, noting that comets don't emit radio waves in the right way.

CPDN founder, Miles Allen on, "The Life Scientific" Yesterday morning on BBC Radio4.

Definitely worth a listen

From Reddit:

Design contest for BOINC promotional materials

We all know BOINC needs some promo help, do you think you have the design chops to do it? The Science Commons Initiative is launching a bug bounty/design contest for some business cards to promote BOINC projects. We have currently placed $50 as a starting bounty, but the greater the bounty the cooler the designs we will get, so please consider contributing.

There are prizes for second and third place as well!

Contest info: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC-Community/issues/1

The second link may work better in Chrome.

Saying this isn't officially supported by BOINC. The people behind SCI are from Gridcoin, don't let Vitalii's name on the list have you believe it's then officially BOINC. It isn't. Any problems you have with this competition you have to take up with them, not BOINC.

Professor Myles Allen scientist whose work has led to CPDN has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/05/new-fellows-2023/