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  SETI@home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a distributed computing project using Internet-connected computers, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.
Seth Shostak (2004), a prominent SETI figure, has stated that he expects to get a conclusive signal and proof of alien contact between 2020 and 2025, based on the Drake equation.
Other users collected large quantities of equipment together at home to create "SETI farms", which typically consist of a number of computers consisting of only a motherboard, CPU, RAM and power supply that are arranged on shelves as diskless workstations running either Linux or Windows 98 SE "headless" (without a video card).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SETI@home   (1772 words)

  
 SETI at Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a scientific effort aiming to determine if there is intelligent life out in the universe.
But one by one, the prospective SETI hits have been downgraded to misses and tagged as radio interference.
SETI@home is separate from the SETI Institute, which is engaged in several scientific and educational projects designed to search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the Universe.
members.tripod.com /~pdharris0/SETI_at_Home.htm   (929 words)

  
 What Is SETI@home?
SETI requires both signal analysis software (to search for needles) and radio telescopes (to find the haystacks).
The SETI League finds the concept highly credible, quite exciting, and are pleased that many of our members have chosen to embrace it.
SETI League personnel were among the beta test team.
www.setileague.org /general/setihome.htm   (612 words)

  
 [Full-Disclosure] Seti@home information leakage and remote compromise
An attacker would have to reroute the connection the client tries to make to the seti at home webserver to a machine he or she controls.
Seti at home also has the ability to use a HTTP-proxy, an attacker could also use the machine the PROXY runs on as a base for this attack.
In more then three months, the seti at home has been unable to produce a patched version of the clients.
lists.grok.org.uk /pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-April/004383.html   (946 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How does SETI@home work?"
Using these telescopes (which are essentially extremely large satellite dish antennas), scientists involved in SETI hope to detect radio signals "leaking" from other intelligent civilizations or that other civilizations have specifically beamed at us.
The SETI approach narrows it down a bit, but it is still listening to a huge number of frequencies.
According to the SETI@home site, the average home computer takes about 30 hours to process one "work unit," and the 35 gigabytes of daily data is broken into 140,000 work units.
www.howstuffworks.com /question204.htm   (667 words)

  
 SETI at Home - SETI Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is not part of the research program of the SETI Institute, but uses data collected with the Arecibo Radio Telescope, in Puerto Rico, as part of Project SERENDIP.
Then, when their computer is idle (for example, when you leave your home office to go out for a burger), this software will download a 300 kilobyte chunk of SERENDIP data for analysis.
Copyright © 2006, SETI Institute - Unless otherwise indicated, the documents and graphics stored on this Web server, www.seti.org, are copyrighted.
www.seti.org /site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=179086   (370 words)

  
 SETI@home FAQ for newsgroups alt.sci.seti and sci.astro.seti.
It appears from the table that effective amateur SETI explorations can be conducted out beyond approximately 30 light years provided the processing bandwidth is near the minimum (approximately 0.1 Hz), the system temperature is minimal (20 to 50 Degrees Kelvin), and the EIRP of the source (transmitter) is greater than approximately 25 terawatts.
Should discussion about the SETI@home project and the SETI project in general begin to crowd eachother, a second newsgroup devoted solely to SETI@home will be created with the name "alt.sci.seti.at-home" leaving "alt.sci.seti" for discussion of the SETI project.
SETI had obvious concerns, that their algorithms might be programmed incorrectly.
setifaq.org /faq.html   (15018 words)

  
 SETI At Home Servers Invaded, Users Spammed - Technology Information Newsbytes News Network - Find Articles
SETI at Home Director David Anderson said the perpetrators didn't actually hack into SETI servers, but instead tricked them into sending back e-mail addresses for roughly 50,000 out of SETI's 3 million users.
In any event, the incident is not likely to raise the hackles of many SETI At Home fans, most of whom are young, male science fiction buffs who are quite accustomed to the minor threats and annoyances that come with a lifetime spent online, Anderson said.
SETI at Home is in the final stages of launching SETI at Home II, which will use data exclusively from an array of radio telescopes in Australia.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_2001_June_1/ai_75245280   (502 words)

  
 SETI at Home
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, derided in some scientific circles as a waste of time, received a good measure of publicity with the success of Cal Berkeley's groundbreaking SETI@Home project.
The software downloads a batch of data from SETI, then when the computer is not being used, the program kicks in like a screensaver program would and starts analyzing the information.
The idea for an all-SETI telescope is not new, but earlier efforts always failed due to the high costs.
www.factmonster.com /spot/setihome.html   (771 words)

  
 SETI Begins At Home (PC Today, 2004)
SETI, or Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is a group devoted to using its PCs to listen for radio signals from space, which may indicate the presence of life outside of Earth.
The heart of the SETI@home project is a screen saver, a program that uses a PC's otherwise-idle processor time to examine data collected by a powerful radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (www.naic.edu).
With a booming number of powerful personal computers able to access the Internet, most of which were sitting idle 99% of the time, Gedye "identified SETI as a scientific problem that is interesting to a lot of people and also has a use for computer time," Anderson said.
www.savetz.com /articles/pctoday_setiathome.php   (1938 words)

  
 Home - SETI Institute
The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
The SETI Institute has a nice selection of gifts for almost everyone on your list - from books to logo wear to cool laser pens.  The best part is, we’ll include a gift note and deliver it right to the door of your recipient.
Following a recent demonstration of a 10-dish element of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), the United States Navy has signed off on a $1.5 million agreement to use the array along with another 10-dish installation to be developed in the near future.
www.seti-inst.edu   (424 words)

  
 SETI at home classic ending? - TechSpot Troubleshooting
SETI at home classic was a simple and good program.
Perhaps that BIONC is improved now, but when seti first told us about switching to it I did, and it was a piece of crap, and its very unfriendly to dialup users.
The new SETI screensaver is cooler, but somehow it lacks in a few areas.
www.techspot.com /vb/all/windows/t-37829-SETI-at-home-classic-ending.html   (610 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Astronomy: Extraterrestrial Life: SETI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
SETI - A brief overview of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and Frank Drake in particular.
SETI Australia Centre - Educational science articles from the sky survey conducted at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The Society for Planetary SETI Research - Organization interested in planetary anomalies that may be the result of intelligent activity.
dmoz.org /Science/Astronomy/Extraterrestrial_Life/SETI   (441 words)

  
 SETI at Home Screensaver
Now even with a good deal of processing power available the SETI project could only process a small amount of the total available data in any real depth and of course a wider search may well lose a very faint signal hidden amongst background noise.
So the SETI at home project was created to use the distributed power of home computers and make the most of unused CPU cycles when PC's are left on but dormant and what better way to do this than to use a screensaver.
Tapes of 35gb of recorded data from the telescope are split into much smaller work units at UC Berkeley and then distributed to SETI at home screensaver users.
www.lordpercy.com /seti_at_home_screensaver.htm   (444 words)

  
 SETI@Home Speedup Tips
The SETI client is a "CPU bound" task which may make this Alpha system appear not as powerful as some newer PC's.
SETI client version 3.03 is now mandatory for all platforms contributing computer resources to this project (version 3.x clients do more science and also know how to skip over quiet portions of the data thus returning faster work units).
The SETI Institute scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature, distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe.
www3.sympatico.ca /n.rieck/docs/seti_tips.html   (6787 words)

  
 Origins of SETI - For all seti@home users in the United Kingdom and Brits abroad
SETI@home is probably the largest computer project in the world as it utilises the home computers (plus many school and business computers) of over 2.5 million users (2,682,000 at 13 January 2001) in hundreds of countries (226 countries at 03 May 2003).
Anyone with a home computer and access to the Internet can become part of the phenomenen.
The origins of SETI can be traced back to as early as 1959 when two Cornell physicists, Giuseppi Cocconi and Philip Morrison, published an article in Nature (v.184 no. 4690, pp.
www.amdow.com /seti/origins.html   (664 words)

  
 [Seti_cvs] seti_boinc/html/project_specific_translations cs.po,NONE,1.1 ja.po,1.5,1.6 cz.po,1.2,NONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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"SETI at home ではこの機能を使って、電波信号を新しい方式で" "分析することを計画しています。 つまり、" "地球外生命体やブラックホール、あるいは高速パルサーといった" "ものの証拠の可能性がある、短時間の広帯域パルスを探すのです。" *************** *** 357,366 **** msgid "SOB_CREDIT_A" # msgstr "BOINC assigns a variable amount of credit per completed work unit, " # "based on your CPU speed and the CPU time used." !
www.ssl.berkeley.edu /pipermail/seti_cvs/2005-April/000045.html   (1397 words)

  
 Dr. SETI's Sample Songs
No Dr. SETI ® presentation is complete without a few of his inimitable SETI Science Songs.
They are a good indication, however, of the ambiance and level of audience participation Dr. SETI typically achieves at coffee houses and on college campuses worldwide.
Full-bandwidth versions of Dr. SETI's songs are available in the CD-book "Tune In The Universe!", available by clicking on the cover art below (and offered for sale at all of Dr. SETI's presentations and performances).
www.setileague.org /drseti/songs.htm   (215 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Searching For ET From Home - UC Berkeley Launches Project To Draw Public Into The Search For ...
SETI@home - named after the acronym for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI - is a way for UC Berkeley's SETI physicists to more thoroughly analyze the data they receive daily from their ongoing survey of the sky using the large radio dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
World's First Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence To Begin (April 5, 2006) -- After 20 years of listening for signs of life elsewhere in the universe, The Planetary Society is now ready to watch the skies.
Home Safe Home is the ultimate reference of its kind, written by the leading authority on...
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1998/11/981130050803.htm   (2190 words)

  
 You too can search for ET!
The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has developed a program called "seti at home" and it is designed to use volunteers computers when they are idle.
But, lots and lots of computers could do the job, and thus the idea of seti at home was born.
I abandoned windows long ago and run linux, a free operating system that I feel is superior, and there is a seti at home program for me as well.
starryskies.com /articles/dln/7-99/et.html   (657 words)

  
 Seti at home The Waller family effort
Also you will need Seti Spy which I give an enthusiastic recommendation.
Then Mike Ober's SETI Driver is for you.
It can be set up so it works with Seti Spy, look for instructions in the FAQ.
www.kiwinetcafe.com /www.onestupid.org/seti   (141 words)

  
 BCAS Seti At Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
our team page on the SETI website for a list of members and amount of work units processed.
The UC Berkeley SETI team has discovered that there are already thousands of computers that might be available for use.
Most of these computers sit around most of the time with toasters flying across their screens accomplishing absolutely nothing and wasting electricity to boot.
www.geocities.com /bcastronomy/Seti_At_Home.html   (229 words)

  
 Seti @ Home
Seti at Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
This is because the client has been hacked in the past, and the hacked version has then been distributed.
The client resets your screensaver to seti at home, and you get lots of pretty graphics to look at.
www.selkirkshire.demon.co.uk /analoguesat/seti.html   (662 words)

  
 SETI@home
SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, was invented by David Gedy and created by David P. Anderson and Dan Werthimer.
Project Phoenix, which is run by the SETI Institute of Mountain View, California, is a “targeted search” which analyzes small amounts of targets (stars and planets) with high sensitivity.
The project was first started in a trailer truck with a few custom built computers and other machines.
www.engr.wisc.edu /wiscengr/issues/feb01/seti.htm   (712 words)

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