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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.

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  Learn about SETI@home

Sponsors and technology partners of SETI@home include The Planetary Society, The University of California Digital Media Innovation Program, Paramount Pictures, Sun Microsystems, Fuji Film Computer Products, Informix, The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Quantum Corporation, space.com, Engineering Design Team, and The SETI Institute. SETI@home is also supported by private donations. It is based at the University of California at Berkeley. Learn about other UC Berkeley SETI projects.



  Personnel

The members of the SETI@home team are:

    Dr. David P. Anderson, Project Director. A former member of the Computer Science faculty at UC Berkeley, he has authored 65 research papers in operating systems, distributed computing, and computer graphics.

    Dan Werthimer, Chief Scientist. Dan is Principal Investigator of the SERENDIP Project at UC Berkeley. He has been actively involved in SETI observations for 20 years, publishing over 35 papers and books on the subject. Dan is the designer of the SERENDIP and SETI@Home data collection hardware.

    Jeff Cobb, Scientific Programmer.
    Eric Korpela, Research Astronomer.
    Kyle Granger, Windows UI/Graphics Programmer.
    Matt Lebofsky, Scientific Programmer.
    Charlie Fenton, Macintosh UI/Graphics Programmer.
    Peter Leiser, Programmer.
    Leonard Chung, Programmer.

The SETI@home advisory panel includes:

    David Gedye. David founded the SETI@home project, and acted as its first Director from 1995 to 1997. David is Engineering Director for the APEX Online Education project.

    Dr. Woodruff T. Sullivan III. Woody is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, and has been an active member of the academic SETI community for more than 20 years.

and the following members of The SETI Institute:

    Dr. Frank Drake, President, SETI Institute.
    Dr. Jill Tarter, Director, Project Phoenix.
    Tom Pierson, Executive Director, SETI Institute.
    Dr. Kent Cullers, Project Phoenix Scientist.
    Dr. John Dreher, Project Phoenix Scientist.
    Greg Klerkx, SETI Institute.

The client analysis code was designed by Dan Werthimer, Mike Lampton, Charles Donnelly and Jeff Cobb, and was implemented by Jeff Cobb. Other contributing programmers include David Anderson, James F. Causey, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa, Charlie Fenton, Kelly French, Kyle Granger, Patrick Keane, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky, Michael Pfeiffer, Brian Pike, Stein Sandbech, Brad Silen, Ted Wright, Steffen Zahn, Charles Congdon, and Hiram Clawson.

Philippe Verdy and Ron Hipschman assisted in developing this web site. Bob Cowart helped with writing documentation.

Many thanks to Craig Kasnoff, who participated in the project's formative discussions and made key introductions. Ralph Derrickson has supported the project from its inception, and given much needed business advice.


  Project Plan

A history and future schedule of SETI@home:

1996: David Gedye, along with Craig Kasnoff, conceived the idea for SETI@home and formed the initial project team. A scientific plan was developed that received widespread academic support at the 5th International Conference in Bioastronomy in July 1996.

1997: The signal analysis code and prototypes of the client and server software were developed.

1998: Most of this year has been devoted to fundraising. In 9/98 we began working on the data recording system and on the final version of the client software. In 11/98 we plan to begin recording data and to begin testing the client software.

1999: From 1/99 through 3/99 we will test and debug the client software, develop the final version of the server software, and prepare the web site for launch. The launch is scheduled for 4/99.

2000-2001: To survey as much of the sky as possible, the experiment will run for two years. The web site will be updated regularly with progress reports, and explanations of the results found so far.



  Sponsors and Acknowledgements

If you'd like to become one of the project's supporters, please click here. Donations are fully tax deductible.

Corporations may become Corporate Sponsors of SETI@home with a minimum $5K (or equivalent in-kind) donation. We are also interested in Corporate Participants willing to run SETI@home on their PCs. For more info, click here.

Sponsors and technology partners of SETI@home include:

The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society
The University of California Digital Media Innovation Program
The University of California Digital Media Innovation Program
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Fuji Film Computer Products
Fuji Film Computer Products
Informix
Informix
SCO
The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)
Quantum Corporation
Quantum Corporation
space.com
space.com
EDT
Engineering Design Team, Inc.
Crystal Group, Inc.
Crystal Group, Inc.
The SETI Institute
The SETI Institute
The Friends of SETI@home
(people like you) !
Donate !

Thanks also to Starwave, who sponsored the scientific feasibility study.

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