Dean’s Scholars Distinguished Lecture Series Presents:

David P. Anderson, Ph.D.

Director, SETI@home (The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Space Science Laboratory
University of California Berkeley

SETI@home

Internet Distributed Computing for SETI

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Participants use a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

Instead of placing a dedicated supercomputer at the telescope, SETI@home distributes data over the Internet to computers in the homes and offices of volunteers.

In SETI@home's first eight months of operation, over 1.6 million people have participated, and have contributed 170,000 years of computer time.

This approach holds promise for a number of other scientific computing problems.

Monday, April 3, 2000
Painter 2.48
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Reception to follow
(i.e. FREE FOOD!!!)