The year was 1999, and the Intel Pentium III was the most powerful CPU on the market, screaming along at 500MHz. The University of California Berkeley sought to tap into the power of idling PCs to ...

data, they will take a more thorough look over the next several weeks. The Planetary Society is the founding and principal sponsor of SETI@home, which is based at the University of California, ...

It's important to note that folding@home is NOT a BOINC project. Not implying that point should take away from contributing to folding@home if you want, but if you already have BOINC installed, there ...

The school superintendent investigating a former employee who ran the SETI@home program on school computers doesn’t understand how the technology works or that the project is well-respected, experts ...

The search for life in outer space hit a snag earlier this week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems. A group of vandals apparently disrupted cables in the SETI@Home ...

Distributed computing approaches have been around for years. The best example of this is the SETI at Home project (setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), which has used the resources of thousands, maybe even ...

Also: Software ‘pirate’ pleads guilty to charges; SANS Institute moves toward master’s degree accreditation; fourth edition of COBIT ready for circulation; Google, Microsoft, Sun team to fund Internet ...

I'm just curious about whether or not an end date has been announced by the SETI@home project. I've been crunching work units for a few years now, and I'm going to hate when it does end. Guess I'll ...

Co-founder of the SETI Institute and Bernard M. Oliver Chair Emerita for SETI ...