SETI@home and Public Participation Distributed Computing
- Dan Werthimer | University of California at Berkeley
Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe and the search for radio signals from other civilizations. SETI@home analyzes data from the world’s largest radio telescope using desktop computers from five million volunteers in 226 countries. SETI@home participants have contributed two million years of computer time and have formed Earth’s most powerful supercomputer. Users have the small but captivating possibility their computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth. Werthimer will also discuss plans for
future SETI experiments, petaop signal processing, and open source code for public participation distributed computing (BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).
Speaker Details
Dan Werthimer is director of the Serendip Seti program and chief scientist of SETI@home at the University of California, Berkeley. Werthimer was associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and has been a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University of St. Charles in Marseille, Eotvos University in Budapest, and 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”.
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Jeff Running
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