NASA has harnessed a network of amateur astronomers to help track and report on asteroids that might someday strike Earth – and debunk hype when it pops up on Twitter.
In the late 1970s Parkinson played the lead role in developing, designing and testing the first Global Positioning System that's still used today, and has been dubbed the "Father of GPS". The system, developed with engineers James Spilker, Hugo Fruehauf, and Richard Schwartz, works by harnessing a network of about 24 satellites that are synched up to ground control stations and receiving devices.
On the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidates and political operatives are seeking to harness a lost network of fund-raisers who propelled President George W. Bush to the White House.
In this paper we present an approach where we harness a social network to perform RE activities such as elicitation, prioritization and negotiation.
Researchers based at King's College London reveal how social media is being harnessed by a network of radical preachers to inspire and guide British and other western Muslims waging jihad in Syria.
In 1993, IDRC created the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) aimed at harnessing a research network for both bamboo and rattan.
This isn't a challenge for Big Data, it's merely a question of scale, and programs such as the Folding @ Home initiative exist to harness a worldwide, distributed network of processing power which has vastly accelerated the rate at which this data is being harvested and decoded, since the first one was completed in 2003.
Erdogan accuses Gulen of harnessing an extensive network of schools, charities and businesses, built up in Turkey and abroad over decades, to infiltrate state institutions and build a "parallel structure" that aimed to take over the country.
The harness was attached to a network of ropes above the youngster, who was frightened.
The non-profit is using the cloud to harness the expertise of a network of about 200 doctors, nurses and business professionals around the world, setting communities of peer networks to address different medical and crowdsourcing research, as well as best practices for medical procedures.
In what is called a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the assailants harnessed a powerful botnet — a network of thousands of infected computers being controlled remotely — to send attack traffic first to Spamhaus's Web site and later to the Internet servers used by CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley company that Spamhaus hired to deflect its onslaught.
