October 8, 1999

Data Crunchers on Campus Vie to Find Signs of Extraterrestrial Life

College football it's not, but students, staff members, and professors at quite a few institutions are getting boosterish about a new sport -- searching for signs of extraterrestrial life.

In April, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley released SETI@home -- software that lets anyone with a desktop computer and a network connection pitch in to analyze radio signals from outer space (http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/). In its spare time,

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