June 22, 2004
This morning the entire Space Sciences Lab lost its network connectivity to the rest of the world for a few hours. This got fixed down on campus, but the SETI@home servers are still currently catching up, so you may have some difficulty connecting.
June 22, 2004
A new version of SETI@home based on BOINC, is now available. We'll be transitioning to this new version (details are here). For now, you can use the new version or stick with SETI@home Classic.
June 20, 2004
We expect the faulty router to be repaired tomorrow. Normal data service will follow.
June 18, 2004
The campus network folks did some great troubleshooting and narrowed down the problem to a faulty link on the path to our ISP. Repairs have been called in.
June 17, 2004
We are working on fixing the network problems that are resulting in dropped connections to the data server.
June 17, 2004
Come hear SETI@Home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer speak at a gathering of SETI leaders on August 7th at Harvard.
June 15, 2004
Check out the new SETI Argentina web site.
May 25, 2004
A new global project called EarthDial connects home-built sundials with Webcams from around the world. Click here for more information.
May 18, 2004
SETI@home turned five years old yesterday. Congratulations and thanks to all concerned. Our search continues!
May 17, 2004
There's a new Plantary Society newsletter: Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians
April 30, 2004
See an interview with SETI@home leader David Anderson on CERN's Grid Cafe.
April 28, 2004
New scientific newsletter: SETI@home Reobservation Report
April 21, 2004
ZoneAlarm Pro users may be experiencing weird behavior when looking up user stats on our web site. Click here for more info.
March 25, 2004
A new Mac GUI client, version 3.08a, is now available. This version fixes screensaver problems under Mac OS 10.3.x.
March 24, 2004
New Planetary Society newsletter: Can a Star's Glow Reveal an Advanced Civilization?
February 17, 2004
New scientific newsletter: Rescored Candidates
February 1, 2004
There is a new Spanish language site, SETI@Venezuela
December 13, 2003
There is a new Greek language site about SETI@home.
December 11, 2003
Summary of a talk in Australia by SETI@home founder David Gedye.
December 4, 2003
Here is a brief summary and current status of our reobservations.
November 29, 2003
Emilio González (Astroseti.org founder) interviews David Anderson (Spanish, English).
November 14, 2003
It is possible that one or more viruses/worms are circulating around the Internet installing SETI@home on infected computers. For more information, click here.
October 30, 2003
If you are unable to connect to our server because of "100" errors, please click here.
October 6, 2003
Plans for our transition to BOINC are here.
September 26, 2003
New article just released at the Planetary Society: New and Improved SETI@home will form Backbone of Distributed Computing Network.
September 23, 2003
Who's faster, Intel or AMD? Benchmarks of SETI@home on various current CPU chips are here.
August 28, 2003
New SETI@home Science Newsletter released today: Telescope Pointing Corrections.
August 27, 2003
We made an error in the generation of reobservaton workunits. We have corrected the error and are redistributing these workunits. Here are some details.
— August 19, 2003 —
As of Monday, August 19, 2003, SETI@home has received over one billion results from SETI@home participants world-wide. See our current total statistics page for daily accumulated results.
— July 21, 2003 —
Read about how the analysis of the reobservations data is coming along in The Planetary Society's latest SETI@home update!
— Jun 26, 2003 —
Here's a great website for kids learning about SETI: Search for ET! Are humans all alone in the universe?
— Jun 17, 2003 —
Browse SETI-related titles at our new SETI@home bookstore.
— Jun 16, 2003 —
SETI@home has just finished sending out workunits for reobserved candidates.
— Jun 03, 2003 —
New from the Planetary Society: SETI@home: "Stellar Countdown" Work Units Sent Out to Users Around the World.
— May 28, 2003 —
Over 4.5 million users have joined SETI@home!
— May 21, 2003 —
New article at the Planetary Society: SETI@home Prepares to Send Out "Reobservations" Workunits.
— May 11, 2003 —
See lots of photos from our reobservation trip to Arecibo.
— May 5, 2003 —
Please welcome international site SETI@home Ukraine.
— April 21, 2003 —
Our new signal candidates page provides links to news, articles, and other candidate-related information.
— April 16, 2003 —
A list of SETI@home participants who analyzed data from our reobservation candidates.
— April 4, 2003 —
There is a software update with a precautionary security fix. To obtain it, go the the download page.
— March 28, 2003 —
Beyond the Countdown: SETI@home Looks Ahead.
— March 25, 2003 —
Reobservations end at Arecibo.
— March 20, 2003 —
View the global distribution of top candidates at the Planetary Society.
— March 18, 2003 —
March 18-25: Get the daily news from SETI@home's reobservations at Arecibo from The Planetary Society's Reobservations Reports!
— March 14, 2003 —
Read about the method used to select the top 200 signals for reobservation: Select ing the Finalist Candidates.
— March 13, 2003 —
See our skymap of best candidates to be reobserved on March 18-20.
— March 10, 2003 —
SETI@home is preparing to reobserve at Arecibo between March 18-25. See SETI@home Returns to the Scenes of its Most Promising Candidates`
— February 24, 2003 —
Science Newsletter 19: Receiver testing and maintenance
— February 20, 2003 —
There is a second SETI@home Cyprus, also with great conten t—check it out!
— February 14, 2003 —
Science Newsletter 18: The Crab Nebula: An ex ample of telescope position testing.
— February 13, 2003 —
Please welcome our new SETI@home representative for Cyprus.
— February 11, 2003 —
Sign The Planetary Society's Declaration of Support for Space Exploration - a response to the loss of Columbi a and her crew.
— February 4, 2003 —
Science Newsletter 17: Keeping up with data in 2002.
— January 28, 2003 —
Please welcome our newest international site: SETI@home Sweden.
— January 24, 2003 —
The Planetary Society's latest SETI@home update: Mapping the Galaxy with SETI@home.
— January 22, 2003 —
New SETI@home international site: Portugal.
— January 21, 2003 —
New SETI@home international site: Hungary.
— January 20, 2003 —
New SETI@home international site: Serbia and Montenegro.
— January 7, 2003 —
Group statistics are now available in XML format (good for parsing and automated data collection).
— January 6, 2003 —
Note: The URL for SETI@home Brazil has changed.
— January 2, 2003 —
Please give a warm welcome to our newest international representative: F ormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
— January 1, 2003 —
Happy New Year from all of us at SETI@home.
— December 20, 2002 —
Good news! Our broken amplifier at AO has been replaced and data acquisition has bee n resumed. See the server status page.
— December 17, 2002 —
Check out our latest newsletter: Magical frames of reference and signal candidates.
— December 10, 2002 —
We welcome another SETI@home international website: SETI@home Canada (English). There is also a French Canadian site.
— December 9, 2002 —
Listen to a radio interview with David Anderson at the Planetary Society (originally aired on December 9, 2002).
— December 4, 2002 —
New article at the Planetary Society: SETI@home Prepares to Revisit its Best Signals
— November 20, 2002 &# 151;
Ohio University has just passed SETI@@sun to become leader in total cpu time .
— November 19, 2002 &# 151;
User statistics are now available in XML format (good for parsing an d automated data collection).
— November 9, 2002 51;
A paper about SETI@@home is featured in the Nov. 2002 issue of Communications of the ACM.
— November 7, 2002 51;
Please help keep SETI@@home funded by joining the Planetary Society.
— November 4, 2002 51;
Congratulations to Gav Moore, our 4 millionth user.
— October 29, 2002 —
Halloween at Arecibo: Two of SETI@home's scientists will be at Arecibo over Halloween to discuss the implementation of multibeam detection (observing
multiple locations of the sky simultaneously).
— October 28, 2002 —
New article at the Planetary Society: SETI@home-Inspired Biology Project Publishes First Scientific Result.
— October 24, 2002 —
Check out our latest newsletter: "Identifying SETI@home's Best Signal Candidates fo r Reobservation".
— October 1, 2002 —
Please welcome another SETI@home international website: SETI@home Mexic o.
— September 17, 2002 —
New article at the Planetary Society: SETI@home Brings Internet Distributed Computing to Other Fields
— September 10, 2002 —
We've added more milestone levels, all the way up to 100,000.
— September 9, 2002 —
Congratulations to SETI@Sun for passing one million returned results!
— August 25, 2002 —
Read about our exciting new future projects.
— August 20, 2002 —
New international websites for China and Gre at Britain.
— July 25, 2002 —
SETI@home receives the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of July 28 - August 3.
— August 1, 2002 —
The Planetary Society wrote a new article, Solving Problems at Arecibo, about our current receiver situation.
— July 9, 2002 —
Read this new article on computer technology and SETI in California Computer News.
— June 21, 2002 —
SETI@home has won the 2002 Computerworld Honors Award in the Science category.
— July 7, 2002 —
We've made a few organizational modifications to our home page.
— July 3, 2002 —
Updated Hebrew, Farsi, and Bulgarian translations.
— June 26, 2002 —
Our signal candidate archive now identifies the users who detected each candidate.
— June 18, 2002 —
New SETI@home international websites from Brazil, Catalonia, French Canada, Lithuania, and Romania.
— June 15, 2002 —
We are still working on the partial workunit download problem. We will put updates in technical news as we see progress.
— June 4, 2002 —
There are reports of clients hanging during workunit download. We are looking into this. If you are experiencing this problem, giving us feedback via this message board thread would be very helpful. Thanks!
— June 3, 2002 —
Over in technical news is a description of a major reorganization of our online science database.
— June 2, 2002 —
SETI@home has officially passed the historic milestone of one million years of CPU time.
— May 31, 2002 —
We have bandwidth again! See Technical News for all the details.
— May 31, 2002 —
Check out our new feature: The SETI@home Photo Collection.
— May 28, 2002 —
Attention international users: SETI@home is trying to expand its community of countries and languages.
— May 21, 2002 —
A new SETI@home article at the Planetary Society: A Question of Bandwidth.
— May 17, 2002 —
Today, May 17, 2002, is SETI@home's official three-year anniversary. All the credit for SETI@home's success and endurance belongs to o ur millions of dedicated users. We thank you and look forward to sharing our future with you.
— May 16, 2002 —
We're now re-splitting some older tapes for clients to process using up-to-date scientific algorithms.
— May 7, 2002 —
The 500 millionth SETI@home result was returned by Milada, who wins a T-shirt a nd the $500 prize offered by the Wichita State University team.
— April 29, 2002 —
We've released our latest newsletter (#14): The Signal Candidate Scoring System
— April 8, 2002 —
Browse through our new archive of best signal candidates detected thus far.
— April 8, 2002 —
Version 3.07 of the client for Mac OS X is now available.
— April 7, 2002 —
Newsletter 13 is here: An Explanation of Signal Candidates.
— April 1, 2002 —
See Amir Alexander's latest article at the Planetary Society: SETI@home Takes Stock of Its Most Promising Signals.
— March 27, 2002 —
You can now browse the active user class pages by name, date registered, number of results received, and total cpu time.
— March 18, 2002 —
We have new RFI data for our current progress summary.
— March 12, 2002 —
Another special release of the Windows client which fixes an overflow workunit credit bug (where users returning certain overflow workunits were not given credit) is now available.
— March 28, 2002 —
Our milestone certificate generation cgi was down for a few days, but now it's fixed.
— March 18, 2002 —
A firewall failure at SSL on Saturday caused us to lose connectivity until the problem was fixed this morning.
— March 8, 2002 —
During peak times, the web server gives confusing "403 Forbidden Errors" when users access pages. Don't be alarmed - just try reloading the page. We're looking into adding more web server power.
— March 8, 2002 —
Here is a campus press release concerning yesterday's power out age. Our connectivity was restored around 09:20 UT today.
— March 5, 2002 —
Newsletter #12 is here: Persistency Checking of Gaussians.
— February 28, 2002 —
A special release of the Windows client which fixes the connection retry bug is now available.
— February 26, 2002 —
A German couple meets through SETI@home.
— February 25, 2002 —
An update on our network bandwidth problem.
— February 25, 2002 —
The Windows screensaver has a bug: it doesn't retry after connection failures. A work-around is described here.
— February 21, 2002 —
SETI@home has a new receiver at Arecibo. For details, see Amir Alexander's article at the Planetary Society. (This article has also been contributed as Newsletter #11.)
— February 4, 2002 —
The new SETI@home message boards are here. Communicate with your fellow SETIzens -- try posting a message.
— January 09, 2002 —
Another report from the Planetary Society: Investigating the "Fabric of the Universe" - SETI@home searches for Pulsars
— December 06, 2001 —
The second annual German SETI@home meeting is scheduled for May 17-20 2002 in Weimar/Th\374ringen.
— December 05, 2001 —
Check out two recent reports on SETI@home from the Planetary Society:
— December 05, 2001 —
Browse our new index of active registered users.
— November 28, 2001 —
Countries are now displayed in all class lists. (If you parse these lists for data, make sure you adjust your code accordingly.)
— November 12, 2001 —
Looking for something? Try our search engine. (Under "Help & Information" on the home page.)
— November 9, 2001 —
Unable to connect with "Error -20;0"? You may have problems with a transparent proxy.
— November 5, 2001 —
Newsletter #10 is here: Using SETI@home data to explore hydrogen distribution in the Galaxy.
— October 26, 2001 —
Search for interesting user profiles with our new profile search engine.
— October 22, 2001 —
Swedish users: check out the new magazine Populär Astronomi.
— October 1, 2001 —
You can now browse user profiles alphabetically.
— September 28, 2001 —
From Satire Wire: SETI Project Turns Down Alien Help.
— September 27, 2001 —
Check out NASA's page on a brief history of SETI (including SETI's funding history).
— September 26, 2001 —
We recently reached the ZettaFLOP (1021 floating-point operations) mark - a world record!
— September 17, 2001 —
Another scientific reference tool called the glossary of concepts is now available.
— September 14, 2001 —
Read our latest newsletter on examining persistent signals.
— September 13, 2001 —
Norton Personal Firewall can report spurious errors for SETI@home users
— September 11, 2001 — In light of the events of Sept. 11 2001: a quote from Carl Sagan.
— September 11, 2001 —
Some work units aren't being credited correctly. We are working to fix the problem; see Tech News.
— August 21, 2001 —
New Feature: Browse current user profiles by country.
— August 7, 2001 —
Keep track of the current progress of the SETI@home project, and learn more about our candidate signal detection pr ocess.
— August 15, 2001 —
Our apologies to those of you using parsers or 3rd party software to process our stats pages. We made some HTML changes to those pages that apparently broke many of your algorithms. On the bright side, we've reverted to the original (pre-8/13) formatting, and our team pages are in the process of being reverted as well.
— July 30, 2001 —
View user profiles (and submit or edit your own profile) at the User Profile Area.
— July 26, 2001 —
Science Newsletter #8 tells how we verify results.
— July 25, 2001 —
Check out our Hands-On Radio SETI Exhibit.
— July 28, 2001 —
View previous Crunchers of the Week.
— July 17, 2001 —
Version 3.05 for Mac OS X is now officially released.
— July 11, 2001 —
We're pleased that Cosmos Studios is now a Key Sponsor of SETI@home. ...more
— May 27, 2001 —
If you have received email from any party claiming to have hacked the SETI@home site, please click here.
— May 23, 2001 —
Our official two-year anniversary was on May 17, 2001. Thanks to the dedication and productivity of our 3 million SETI@home users, we've been able to extend the depth and breadth of our project into the forseeable future. See our Project Report for updates on our status and goals.
— May 16, 2001 —
Congratulations to Bernd Ziegler, our 3 MILLIONTH SETI@home user!
— April 7, 2001 —
SETI@home version 3.03 is available and mandatory for all supported platforms. Earlier versions will no longer work. Changes in version 3.03 can be found here.
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