SETI@home: Discover ET Using Your Home Computer

Complete video at: Dan Werthimer describes the role of the SETI@home project in the search for extraterrestrials. He explains how data from the world’s largest telescope is being analyzed by millions of networked computers around the world. The SETI@home software has created “the biggest supercomputer on the planet.“ ----- Are We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer discusses the possibility of life in the universe, and how to set-up your computer to possibly detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth. Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America,“ Maker Faire 2009 was organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things.“ - Maker Faire 2009 Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of SETI@home and of several radio and optical SETI programs at the Univer