Projects: SETI@home
Recent Updates
January 15, 2008: From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape
In the beginning was SETI@home, the first large-scale volunteer computing project, launched in 1999 with seed money from The Planetary Society. Within months the project had millions of volunteers around the world joining to form the most powerful computer network ever assembled. Other projects soon followed, focused on everything from the search for large prime numbers to protein folding.
November 8, 2007: Planetary System Detected Around SETI@home Target Star
When first discovered over a decade ago they appeared as lonely giants, circling their home stars in splendid isolation amid the emptiness of interstellar space. Then, as more and more exoplanets were detected, some of them clustered together in groups of twos and threes orbiting the same star. And now, at last, a fully formed planetary system, with five different planets of varying sizes and orbits has been found, orbiting a star more than 40 light years away. Significantly, it is the very same star, 55 Cancri, that was one of the chief targets of the SETI@home reobservations at Arecibo in March 2003.
July 6, 2007: Searching for E.T. and the Cure for Cancer:
The Planetary Society Helps Trigger a Computing Revolution
We couldn’t say no to the opportunity: being part of an experiment in which members of the public could truly contribute to science and have a chance to make a world-changing discovery. That’s what SETI@home promised when David Anderson and Dan Werthimer of UC Berkeley brought the project to The Planetary Society and asked for our help in getting it launched. With our members’ support, we leaped on it, and nearly six million participants later, SETI@home is a landmark in the history of scientific computing.
August 14, 2006: With Multi-Beam Receiver, SETI@home Takes Giant Step Forward
It has been two years now since the seven pronged multi-beam receiver was hoisted above the Arecibo radio telescope and installed in the Gregorian dome, 500 feet above the surface of the dish. During this time the new receiver had become an inseparable part of the regular operations at Arecibo, providing a new and indispensable resource for teams of scientists from around the world. But it was only two months ago that members of the SETI@home team headed down to Arecibo to join the fray.
December 13, 2005: SETI@home Transitions to BOINC
December 15, 2005 will mark the end of an era in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). On that day, SETI@home classic, the program that revolutionized both SETI and the world of computing, will shut down. The project will then continue as part of BOINC – the Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing.
December 13, 2005: SETI@home Transition FAQs
The basics about moving from SETI@home classic to the new BOINC-based SETI@home.
July 7, 2005: Analyzing Signals in Real Time
Rather than wait for months to determine whether a to follow up on a signal,
SETI@homne is turning to Real Time Analysis.
November 24, 2004: IBM’s World Community
Grid: A New SETI@home-Inspired Venture
The immense popularity of SETI@home has inspired others to try and emulate its
success.
August 24, 2004: Scientists from Different Fields Line Up to Join the BOINC
Family
BOINC - the distributed computing platform spawned by SETI@home is gaining new
converts.
August 4 , 2004: Multi-Beam Receiver Promises New Vistas for SETI Research
A state-of-the-arts Multi-Beam Receiver is installed at Arecibo, for use by
SETI@home and other astronomical projects.
May 17, 2004: Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians: Rescoring the Reobsevations
SETI@home scientists are analyzing the results of the 2003 Reobservation Sessions.
September 25, 2003: New and Improved SETI@home will Form the Backbone of Distributed Computing Network
BOINC, the Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing, is getting ready to go online. SETI@home with its millions of users will anchor the new venture.
July 18, 2003: Analyzing the Reobservations
SETI@home scientists are analyzing the results of the March 2003 Stellar Countdown.
Novemebr 5, 2001: SETI@home Listens to the Dying Gasps of Black Holes
The SETI@home receiver at Arecibo scans the skies, searching
for a signal from an alien civilization. So far no signal has been found,
but SETI@home scientists are not losing hope. Searching for a signal is
bound to be a long-term process, says chief scientist Dan Werthimer, and
its success can only be evaluated on the time scale of generations. In
the meantime, Werthimer and his colleagues are making sure that the mountains
of data gathered in the search do not go to waste, and are used in shorter-term
scientific projects. Most recently, astronomers have begun sifting through
SETI@home's data looking for signs of evaporating black holes.
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