Site News
(Most recent news appears first.)
1/15/2007 - *New* - For your convenience, I have added Google
Search Boxes to every page on this site. :)
8/25/2006 - I am astonished how poorly thought out the recent
IAU planet definition is, and also by the fact that it demotes
Pluto to non-planetary status...so I have taken the liberty of
writing (what I feel is) a better planet definition! Read it
here:
Official
Craig Research Labs Position Statement on the IAU's Definition
of a Planet
9/19/2004 - I have put in substantial work
recently redefining the direction of the lab and updating our
website -- I've cleared away a lot of the "dead wood"
that was getting in the way of the smooth functioning of this
company.
As always, we continue to make progress on our core projects;
here are our latest results:
-Our Folding@home Team Stats: 55310.9 grand score (combined
Folding@home 1.0 & 2.0 score totals).
-Our SETI@home Team Stats: 3089 work units completed.
-Our Click to Cure Cancer research funding
totals: $774.00
(Note: If you've checked our Folding@home stats recently you
may have noticed that our total score only says 48310.9 -- this
is because all of the original stats were dropped when Folding@home
1.0 evolved into Folding@home 2.0. Our team earned a score of
7,000 during the life of the Folding@home 1.0 program, so our
current grand total is actually 55310.9.)
12/29/2003 - We have yet another new volunteer for 2003: Tracy
Hall of Columbus, Georgia has joined our Folding@home
team. Welcome to the team, Tracy!
11/12/2003 - This week we reached a major milestone -- after
two years of hard work, our Folding@home
team has reached a cumulative score of 20,000! Craig Research
Labs was founded on the notion that we could bring together strangers
from around the globe and cooperatively pool our efforts with
the common goal of pushing progress in the sciences forward at
an ever increasing pace; this achievement is the most tangible
proof yet that we are succeeding in our mission! My sincerest
thanks to all of our past and present Folding@home team members
for helping to make this success possible.
(Note: If you've checked our Folding@home 2.0 stats recently
you may have noticed that our total score only says 13,000 --
this is because all of the original stats were dropped when Folding@home
1.0 evolved into Folding@home 2.0. Our team earned a score of
7,000 during the life of the Folding@home 1.0 program, so our
current grand total is actually 20,000.)
10/18/2003 - Another new volunteer (Folding@home)!
R. Padmakumar of India!
10/9/2003 - Good news! A new volunteer has joined our Folding@home
team. He is Robert Peterson of Saint Peter, Minnesota. Welcome
aboard, Peter!
10/5/2003 - Brand new! I have created a "blog" (weblog)
about science & technology. This blog is moderated, which
means anyone can post! Help me build a lively community discussion...
CRL
Science Blog
10/1/2003 - I'm pleased to announce that our "Click to Cure Cancer" page has to
date raised $326.00 for cancer research! This program is nearing
its first year anniversary. It's been a great year so far, but
we can raise much more money if we can get more sponsors for
the page. I would like to see us raise ten times
this amount in 2004, but for this we will need more sponsors.
Click here to learn how to become a sponsor.
9/23/2003 - I suppose I should post bad news here as well
as good news.
Unfortunately, on 9/19/2003 one of the lab's computers suffered
a hard drive failure, and yes, we lost data. Among other things,
we lost all of our membership data, plus portions of a spacecraft
design improvement proposal I had submitted to The
Planetary Society for their Cosmos
1 Solar Sail project.
If you have joined us as a member, please
email
me and resubmit your contact information
so I know who you are and can put you back on our mailing list.
I am a little bit embarrassed about
the fact that we lost data in this incident; we have a fairly
sophisticated backup system here but it's very slow and our data
archive has grown so huge that we just don't have the time to
back it all up as frequently as we ought to. I guess I will just
have to dedicate more time to this task in the future.
In the meantime, if anyone knows of
a good data recovery service please let me know, because it may
still be possible to retrieve our data off of this "dead"
hard drive.
8/1/2003 - Our "Click to Cure Cancer" page has to
date raised $265.00 for cancer research! We need to find additional
sponsors for the page -- everybody please help out -- sponsorship
only costs $1 a day, and you can sponsor for a single day if
you wish -- click here to become a sponsor. The more
sponsors we have for the page, the more money we will raise to
fight cancer!
7/2/2003 - Membership in the lab is now FREE! Click here for instructions on how to join.
6/27/2003 - New educational pages! Skeletal versions of the
Earth
Sciences page, the Chemistry page, the Physics page, and the Mathematics page have been uploaded.
I will flesh out these pages with lots of new links and content
over the next few months. Check 'em out!
6/5/2003 - I've been doing some major restructuring of our
website and of the company in general. If you look around you
will notice a few changes.
Here are our most recent project accomplishments:
-Our "Click to Cure Cancer" page has to
date raised $209.00 for cancer research! We can raise much more
money if we can get more sponsors for the page -- everybody please
help out -- sponsorship only costs $1 a day, and you can sponsor
for a single day if you wish -- click here to become a sponsor.
-Our Folding@home Team Stats: 14,595 grand score (combined
Folding@home 1.0 & 2.0 score totals).
-Our SETI@home Team Stats: 1780 work units completed.
2/28/2003 - I am pleased to announce that our "Click to Cure Cancer" page has to
date raised $112.00 for cancer research! I've sent our first
donation check off to The
Sloan-Kettering Institute at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, so it can start helping people
immediately. We could always use more sponsors for the page --
sponsorship only costs $1 a day -- click here to become a sponsor.
2/7/2003 - You may now show your support for the lab by joining
us as a member. Membership costs $75.00 and has lots of great
benefits for you. Plus, your dollars will provide vital financial
support for the lab.
Our goal is to sign up 100 members before the end of 2003.
This new membership initiative is extremely important to the
future growth of Craig Research Labs. If you love science and
would like to see the lab live up to its full potential as a
science institution, then please sign up for membership
today!! By pooling our collective resources, our "whole"
will become much more than the sum of its parts. The more members
that sign up, the bigger the lab will get, and the more exciting
and successful our scientific work will become.
We need you as part of the Craig Research Labs
family!!
2/6/2003 - I have uploaded a page to remember the STS-107
astronauts and their mission. Click below to visit.
Space
Shuttle Columbia Memorial Page
1/20/2003 - I have completed and uploaded the first draft
of our biology page. Check it out!!!
Also, our latest distributed computing work unit totals are:
Folding@home - 10,350 grand score (combined Folding@home 1.0
& 2.0 score totals)
SETI@home - 1685 work units completed
1/1/2003 - Happy new year! I have some exciting news to share
with you -- there are two new projects on our research page!!! We are building a deep
sea submersible camera ("Dive Camera 1"), and we are
making our extensive library of science images and graphics available
for use outside of the lab ("Science Image Archive").
Everybody go take a look!!!
12/16/2002 - I have completed and uploaded the first draft
of our Space Science Page. Check it out!
11/8/2002 - I have created an important new
area for our site -- a "click to donate" page that
will raise money for cancer research! Donations are FREE and
you may visit the page once per day to donate, so click the link
below to go there right now:
Click to Cure Cancer
9/6/2002 - MAJOR new web site "makeover" completed
and uploaded! Please let me know if you like it.
6/29/2002 - It's been far too long since I made a news post.
I have a great deal of news. Here we go:
-I have officially discontinued our participation in the Folding@home
Version 1.0 program, and set up a new Folding@home Version 2.0
team (if you would like to join, we are team #3423). F@H 1.0 and
F@H 2.0 are completely separate projects, so our F@H team stats
and ranking have started over again from zero. I am proud
to report that we concluded our work for F@H 1.0 with approximately
7,000 work unit credits and a ranking within the top 100 teams
worldwide!
-Since my last news post over two months ago, we've had some
VERY big news: two new volunteers joined the Craig Research Labs
family within days of each other at the end of April! They are
Daniel Lovejoy of Kealakekua, Hawaii and Brenden Mileur
of Pryor, Oklahoma. Welcome aboard! As volunteers you are very
important to our efforts and I GREATLY APPRECIATE your assistance.
Thank you!
-Our latest work unit totals are:
Folding@home 2.0 - 533.4 work unit credits (we're off to a
good start!)
SETI@home - 1165 work units completed
4/7/2002 - Today is World Health Day. This event is organized
by the World Health Organization.
Here is the official World
Health Day 2002 website.
4/1/2002 - I have three news items to report to you today.
The first is that our March 2002 Science Prize Sweepstakes is
now complete and our April contest has begun. Our March winner
was Nada Gvozdenovic of Croatia. Congratulations Nada, enjoy
your prize!
The second news item is that our Folding@home team completed
its 6,000th work unit about a week ago. However, our statistics
data has somehow become corrupted and approximately 2,000 of
our work unit credits have disappeared. I have not yet been able
to contact anyone at Folding@home about this problem, and I am
not optimistic that our statistics data will ever be recovered.
So if you go up to the Folding@home homepage to look at our official
stats, just add 2,000 to the number you see displayed there.
Finally, I would like to mention that we have been running
Folding@home Version 1.x for over six months now, and as time
has passed this software version has become nearly obsolete.
I will shortly be moving all of our computers to the Version
2.x software, and since 2.x appears to be an entirely separate
project from 1.x, it is unclear to me what will happen to our
1.x statistics data and team profile. I do know that Version
2.x uses a team number rather than a team name, so I will post
that number here and on our Folding@home page once it is assigned
to us.
Happy Easter!
2/24/2002 - I've just added a brand new page to our "Fun
and Educational" section titled The Time Page. This page is all about
time and its measurement and should be of particular use to amateur
astronomers and people who are chronically late for work. Take
a look if you've got a moment.
2/20/2002 - Here are our current work totals:
Folding@home - 5034 work units completed
SETI@home - 346 work units completed
1/28/2002 - Wow, three days, three updates! Boy am I tired.
I've slept maybe six hours since January twenty-fifth. So I'll
make this news update brief. All I want to tell you is that I've
added a page of Science
Newswires and a page of my favorite Science
Links. Goodnight.
1/27/2002 - I get very impatient with things that don't work.
Very impatient. I got so frustrated yesterday with America Online's
web servers that I registered our domain name and moved our site
to Yahoo! Geocities. Hopefully things will be running smoothly
from now on.
1/26/2002 - There are lots of exciting things going on around
here! I have just completed a major update of our web site. As
you can see, it looks a little different (hopefully better).
I made many small changes and clarifications, and I have also
added a Contests
page where you can go to win free science goodies! In addition,
within the next few weeks I will attempt to get us linked into
a few science webrings so you can explore some of the many interesting
science resources available on the web.
One problem has come to my attention -- you may have noticed
that our web pages frequently fail to load completely (or at
all) when you visit our site. Unfortunately, this problem is
caused by America Online's web servers (where our pages reside).
It seems that AOL has neglected to keep pace with the amount
of traffic on their system and their servers are constantly choking
under the strain. If you experience problems trying to access
our site, just keep hitting the "reload" button on
your browser until the page appears properly. I am looking into
the possibility of having our web pages hosted by another company;
if anyone can suggest a reliable and inexpensive web host, I
would appreciate it.
1/1/2002 - Happy New Year!
Here are the final 2001 work totals:
Folding@home - 3,519 work units completed
SETI@home - 285 work units completed
I was hoping for 4,000 and 300 respectively, but I guess the
totals that we have achieved are not that bad considering the
fact that Craig Research Labs still doesn't even exist as an
"official" business entity! We are still operating
in the gray area that exists between being an idea and being
a company, and since we currently have neither income nor expenses
but seem to be making steady progress with the research anyway,
I may just keep things as they are for a while. I will post a
news update regarding our future organizational plans in the
next month or so. Until then you'll just have to keep guessing!
12/14/2001 - Just in time for the holidays, we have completed
our 3,000th Folding@home unit! In addition, our SETI@home total
now stands at 264 work units. For up to the minute results, go
to either project's home page on the World Wide Web and search
for our team's results (team name: Craig Research Labs).
11/10/2001 - Today we returned our 2,000th Folding@home work
unit to the Stanford University server. Go team! Our SETI@home
efforts are also going well; we've successfully crunched our
way through 103 of the (much larger) SETI work units. Please
help us to work faster by clicking here
to join us as a volunteer.
10/2/2001 - This week is World Space Week. Visit the World
Space Week home page for a schedule of events taking place
in your city (or country) from October 4th through October 10th.
10/1/2001 - I am pleased to announce that we have reached
our first milestone; today we returned our thousandth Folding@home
work unit to the server at Stanford University! This is only
the beginning, and we are still just getting started. If you
would like to help us get the work done even faster, click here
to find out how to join our team as a volunteer.
9/1/2001 - Even though our business structure will not be
completely in place until January 2002, we are pleased to announce
that both our Folding@home and SETI@home programs are now fully
operational and returning results! We couldn't resist jumping
at the opportunity to get underway ahead of schedule. You are
encouraged to join our efforts by clicking here.
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