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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
SETI@home
Stage A , Saturday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Are We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe, and how you can create the possibility of your computer detecting the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
Web site: http://seti.berkeley.edu
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. Werthimer was associate professor in the engineering and physics
departments of San Francisco State University and a
visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University
of St. Charles in Marseille, and Eotvos University in Budapest.
He has taught at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. Werthimer has published numerous
papers in the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation
and science education; he is co-author of "SETI 2020" and
editor of "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search
for Life in the Universe".
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
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