December 11, 1998

Berkeley Astronomers Enlist Internet Users to Seek Alien Life

By KELLY McCOLLUM

In hopes of finding extraterrestrial life, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are preparing to take a closer-than-ever look at radio signals from outer space. And they want your help.

A project sponsored by the SETI Institute -- the acronym stands for "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" -- will analyze radio waves from space using distributed computing, a process that takes a large

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