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Monday, March 17, 2003
Scientists' search for E.T. narrowed by home-PC system
Scientists searching for life on distant planets are about to use the world's premier radio telescope to zoom in on promising radio signals isolated by volunteer home computer users around the world.... More than 4 million volunteers have installed the screen-saver in a program called SETI@home (setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu) and donated more than 1-million-years worth of idle processing power to sift through data on billions of potential radio signals. It's one of several efforts under SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Using the Internet, volunteers' computers send back analyzed results to Berkeley for examination by experts.
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