![]() Years earlier he had been part of a volunteer effort to find alien life, called Founded in 1999 at Berkeley University in California, the project asked internet users across the world to donate their idle computing power to analyse data from gigantic radio telescopes.īut another, similar project, was seeking volunteers to analyse a biological process called protein folding, which is critical to the way coronavirus attacks human cells. And so, stuck indoors, like billions of others, with time on his hands, he got on his computer and looked for something to do. ![]() King had been concerned about infecting his wife, who worked at a retirement home. With the world plunging into catastrophe, Covid safety measures at the site were worryingly lax. The 72-year-old Canadian programmer had only just started working for a building project near Niagara Falls. One Monday morning in March 2020, David King went in to work and got fired.
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