Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons.

We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest. Given the fantastic group of entrants, with Jetpacks that did everything from Twitter readers to a one-click text translators, it was hard to pick a winner.

Alexander Miltsev of Moscow created a prototype for allowing Jetpacks to process large amounts of data on your computer’s graphical co-processor. Alex’s work is both creative and unusual. It digs deep into what a potential future for Jetpack can be—allowing for high-performance computing that is accessible to casual developers.

In Alex’s words: “Large data processing is occurring everywhere today. Graphical co-processors are on computers everywhere [and are used in] computational science models, searching tasks, algorithms, statistics, and audio and video processing.” By giving webpages and add-ons easy access to the raw processing power available on most computers, the range of