THE UNIVERSITY OF California at Berkeley has announced the end of SETI@home, one of the largest citizen science projects ever undertaken. This project engaged ordinary people to contribute their personal computers' processing power to help analyze the masses of data involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Since 1999,millions of people have used the free SETI@home software to download and analyze radio telescope data to look for any sign of a signal that might be coming from the technological activities of intelligent beings light years away.
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