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Are we alone? Discover life in the universe--or at least the possibility of it. Learn how your computer could be the one to detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of SETI@home and several radio and optical SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley. He also directs the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research. 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".
