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The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is a series of projects that scrub the background noise of the universe to look for alien life. One of the most famous ventures under the name was ...

Fun facts: SETI@Home launched on May 17, 1999 and gathered millions of participants from hundreds of countries to concentrate their computing power on crunching data obtained from radio telescopes. In ...

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The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world. Watching the internet extend its reach ...

The search for E.T. has been put on hold, apparently by low-tech vandals. The servers for SETI@Home, which coordinates the search for extraterrestrial intelligence via members' PCs, have been ...

SETI@Home down The following announcement has been posted to SETI@Home's web page: "At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence ...

Last week we posted news about rampant cheating in the SETI@Home project. A ZDNet Australia article, an 800+ signature petition, and the resulting flurry of activity across the web elicited a response ...

You’re probably aware of the SETI@Home project, enabling the spare processing power of home computers to help process chunks of radio telescope data in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

After a long delay, the first stage of the SETI@Home project will soon draw to a close with official release of a new client based on the BOINC platform. The new client offers better security, easier ...

The SETI@home project is about to be inundated with data from an upgraded telescope, and the scientists need your help to process it. The eight-year-old distributed computing hunt for extraterrestrial ...