UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI @ home will stop distributing work and go into hibernation on March 31. Two reasons were cited for this action: 1) Scientifically, ...

They called it SETI@home. On Tuesday, researchers at the Berkeley SETI Research Center announced they would stop distributing new data to SETI@home users at the end of March. It marks the ...

The Berkeley SETI Research Center announced Monday that SETI@home, the two-decades-old crowdsourcing effort to hunt for signs of E.T. in radio telescope data using internet-connected computers ...

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley’s SETI@home project say they’ll stop sending new work to the network of volunteers, who’ve been using their computers to search for aliens ...

Astronomers say they have all the data they need in the search for extraterrestrial life. Distributed computing network SETI@home has ceased scouring radio telescope data for signs of ...

SETI@home has announced that it will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as it has enough data and wants to focus on completing a back-end analysis of it.

Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals ...

Providing further proof of the adage that “No good deed goes unpunished,” the SETI@home screen saver contains software vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on ...

The Seti@home project has released a new version of its software in order to close up a security hole that could let invaders into participants' PCs. The project, which allows desktop and ...