Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
SETI@home

Maker Main Stage (Fiesta) , Saturday 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Are We Alone? Is Anybody Out There? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe, SETI@home, and how you can have the small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.

Web site: http://seti.berkeley.edu

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Topic(s): Science

Tags: seti astronomy volunteer+computing distributed+computing

About the Maker(s)

Dan Werthimer Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of SETI@home and several radio and optical SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley.

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