The '''Berkeley Open System for Skill Aggregation'''<ref>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/workshop_07.ppt p.39 (September 6,2007)</ref> ('''Bossa''') is a software framework for [[Distributed_thinking|distributed thinking]] - the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that require human intelligence, knowledge, or cognitive skills.
== History ==
[[David_P._Anderson|David P. Anderson]] a research scientist at the [[Space Sciences Laboratory]] of the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and leader of the [[BOINC]] project was involved in [[Stardust@home]]. The project used 23,000 volunteers to identify interstellar dust particles via the Web - an approach called [[Distributed_thinking|distributed thinking]]. In 2007 Anderson launched two new software projects: Bossa (middleware for distributed thinking), and [[Bolt_(computing)|Bolt]] (a framework for web-based training and education in the context of volunteer computing and distributed thinking).
