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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 ...

What are nerds gonna do for a screensaver now that SETI@Home is no more? (Ed.– Guess it’s back to 7 of 9.) So, yeah, SETI@Home closed for business yesterday, which is a bummer as it was the first well ...

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 ...

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SETI@Home, the pioneering project that put personal computers to work in the search for extraterrestrial life, may shut down because of financial struggles. The distributed-computing effort, begun in ...

For the past 4 years, millions of dedicated computer users have analyzed radio signals collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope. Next week, SETI@Home scientists will be using dedicated time at Arecibo ...

SETI@Home is one of the oldest and is the largest distributed computing project in the world. In the early days of the project, Caesar enlisted Ars' support in the search for otherworldly signals with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Users of the popular SETI@Home distributed client have been reporting connection problems over the past few days. These problems come from the fiber connection between the University of California ...

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 ...