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RSS seti'SETI in no danger of closure' insists director
News The director of SETI@home - the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - has quashed talk of a funding crisis and imminent closure for the grid computing venture. Earlier this week a leaked email from SETI's chief scientist Dan Werthimer threw... [18 Oct 2002]
SETI cracks down on cheating alien-hunters
News Administrators of the alien-hunting distributed computing experiment SETI@home have announced they will crack down on members accused of cheating. SETI@home director David Anderson announced SETI@home would do its best to investigate users... [04 Nov 2002]
SETI@home passes round hat for funding
News The director of SETI@home - a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life - has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis. [14 Nov 2002]
ET's not calling us, SETI says - not this time
News Reports that a group set up as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) has detected a radio transmission that it suspects could be a signal from an alien civilisation, have been dismissed by the organisation. [06 Sep 2004]
SETI venture plagued by cheating
News SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by cheats. SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) is one of the highest-profile distributed computing ventures - with an avid following worldwide. [30 Oct 2002]
Security flaw hits SETI@home project
News A security vulnerability has been found in SETI@home, the software used by millions of internet users to search for extraterrestrial life. The flaw has been found in both the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) client and server software. [07 Apr 2003]
Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis. [15 Oct 2002]
Search for alien life reaches milestone
News The alien-searching peer-to-peer program Seti (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) is about to conduct its 500 millionth analysis this week. The Seti scientists have now said the project is about to concuct its 500 millionth data analysis... [30 Apr 2002]
Hunt for alien life struck by denial-of-service
News The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Seti requires computer users to download a... [30 Jul 2004]
Alien life will be discovered within next 20 years
News Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California, has calculated that the rate of improvement of radio telescopes will enable astronomers to detect radio signals from other... [26 Jul 2004]
5 years ago… Use your PC to search for alien life
News 04.08.98: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) programme is developing software to assist in the search for alien life forms. And thus began the craze… The SETI screensaver has become ever-present in offices around the world over the... [04 Aug 2003]
The search for alien life continues on P2P
News SETI@home records signals from space gathered by the world's largest telescope in Puerto Rico. SETI@home is based on peer-to-peer (P2P) computing model, also known as distributed computing, which redistributes the computational capacity equal to... [19 Dec 2000]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News He said: "The SETI@home network is quite different because the owner has full knowledge of any use of their computer. SETI@home uses a distributed network of computers to decipher signals from an array of radio telescopes, which listen for signals... [12 Sep 2007]
Without peers: How P2P will become mainstream
Comment One of the first internet-based distributed computing projects to utilise unused CPU power is called SETI@home. Many other similar projects have sprung up based on the SETI model, some urging users to donate their spare CPU power to cancer research... [09 Aug 2001]
Grid computing fights breast cancer
News The grid, called eDiamond, works on the distributed computing model made famous by the SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) initiative. IBM has teamed up with Oxford University and the UK government to launch a grid computing system... [14 Oct 2002]
