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"La Repubblica", an Italian newspaper, finally got it.

Someone probably looked at Yahoo! RSS feeds and found the information related to NPR.
Here is the link.

For Italian readers only:
Note that the article was a (bad) translation, and there are many glitches:

1 - GIMPS distributed project is older than SETI@Home distributed project.
2 - It is said that EFF offered 2 prizes of 150,000 and 250,000 US dollars.
3 - It still refers to 50,000 connected PCs in the project (theuy are actually 92,969).
4 - GIMPS public search started around September 1996, not at the beginning of 2000.
5 - They stepped on the same citation of Prof. Caldwell about 13 million digits numbers.

For all readers:
many got interested after having read the article: I noticed at least 10 Italian names among the new entries I hope that many of them will join Team_Italia (at least two of them already did).

Luigi

[Pi Rho]

Nice interview, George and Chris. I think Chris's analogy to the Hope Diamond is quite good. The spinoff research/projects that have come about via the fora are worth a mention as well. I'm sure that NFSNET has benefitted from additional members. PSP, 17 or bust, 5 or bust, among others as well.

[Xyzzy]

Isn't the Hope Diamond cursed?

[10metreh]

Originally Posted by Pi Rho

I'm sure that NFSNET has benefitted from additional members. PSP, 17 or bust, 5 or bust, among others as well.

One that has certainly come about as a result of forum discussion is the aliquot sequence miniproject that Frank Schickel has started for sequences from 100000-200000. As one of the people who helped start the discussion that led to the forum, I announce:

Additional members welcome!