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. . . goin' back to the beginnin' of this Project
How SETI@home works - Story by Ron Hipschman
. . . The Problem  Mountains of Data
Most of the SETI programs in existence today, including those at UC Berkeley build large computers that analyze that data from the telescope in real time. None of these computers look very deeply at the data for weak signals nor do they look for a large class of signal types (which we'll discuss further on...) The reason for this is because they are limited by the amount of computer power available for data analysis. To tease out the weakest signals, a great amount of computer power is necessary. It would take a monstrous supercomputer to get the job done. SETI programs could never afford to build or buy that computing power. There is a trade-off that they can make. Rather than a huge computer to do the job, they could use a smaller computer but just take longer to do it.
But then there would be lots of data piling up. What if they used LOTS of small computers, all working simultaneously on different parts of the analysis? Where can the SETI team possibly find thousands of computers they'd need to analyze the data continuously streaming from Arecibo?
The UC Berkeley SETI team has discovered that there are already thousands of computers that might be available for use. Most of these computers sit around most of the time with toasters flying across their screens accomplishing absolutely nothing and wasting electricity to boot. This is where SETI@home (and you!) come into the picture. The SETI@home project hopes to convince you to allow us to borrow your computer when you aren't using it and to help us "…search out new life and new civilizations." We'll do this with a screen saver that can go get a chunk of data from us over the internet, analyze that data, and then report the results back to us. When you need your computer back, our screen saver instantly gets out of the way and only continues it's analysis when you are finished with your work.
It's an interesting and difficult task. There's so much data to analyze that it seems impossible! Fortunately, the data analysis task can be easily broken up into little pieces that can all be worked on separately and in parallel. None of the pieces depends on the other pieces. Also, there is only a finite amount of sky that can be seen from Arecibo. In the next two years the entire sky as seen from the telescope will be scanned three times. We feel that this will be enough for this project. By the time we've looked at the sky three times, there will be new telescopes, new experiments, and new approaches to SETI. We hope that you will be able to participate in them too!
Mountains of Data - con't <------- read more - click me
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. . . goin' baCk again to an old Friend from the 'Industry'
- i knew (know) him as a 'Juicer' (Electrician / Lightning) from Warner Bros. (Retired @ Present)
as well as an Excellent Visual Artist too . . .
> here's a part of a Weblog he'd been keepin' - back to 1974
. . . Michael 'Preterosso mine nu'
12/08/2002 Entry: "A Partner For My Journey (part 1)"
1974
As I watched "Titanic" tonight, my thoughts turned to a person that shaped the course of the next half of my life. She has been known by more names to more people than anyone I have known. Some have known her by Meg, others by Margret. Some have known her as Christine. When she came into my life I knew her as Kris. As Willie Nelson said (I think), "You never have an ex-wife, just another wife". Kris is the mother of my children and even in divorce I consider her a dear friend.
The circumstances surrounding her birth are shrouded in mystery. The story goes, she was born to a woman (or I should say a girl of 16) in Bremen, West Germany; February 4, 1947. That was around 6 years before my birth. Her mother had just emerged from the depths of World War 2. Her name was Heidi Von Schell. The mother was a woman of duel citizenship, German and Norwegian. She had been a member of the Nazi Youth. I guess all German children where. There are stories of burying food to survive. Not much else I know about the mother.
The story goes, that in post war Germany, Kris' mother met up with a American soldier from Ragland , West Virginia. They were married and conceived Kris. Something happened that separated the young couple. Supposedly, some violation of restrictions about non-fraternization with the enemy forced them apart. But that I don't think is certain.
Kris was very sick when she was born. As I remember, she had boils all over her body. The doctors didn't give much hope for her. Her mom said that she did some home remedy for her that saved her life. The next thing that I remember in the story is that the couple that came to be her adopted parents found Kris being passed from family to family to get larger rations. They said that her clothes had to be "peeled" off of her. Her adopted father was Anton Antkowiak. He had been a cook in the German army. The one story that I remember about him was that while serving on the Russian front he was arrested and put in the brig for using a hand grenade to catch fish for eating. The adopted mother was Gretel. While Heidi was a man magnet, Gretel wasn't a very attractive woman. It seems that all the women envoled in this story were deeply scarred by their war experience. While they were "survivors" they became very hostile and secretive people. So the story it blurred and obscured by these tendencies.
It seems that life settled down in the next few years. Kris became the youngest in a family that included two sisters who were natural children of Anton and Gretel. Kris wasn't to be told that she was adopted until she was 21. I believe it was 1951 that the family immigrated to the United States. Kris' true mother had come here maybe two years before. When Heidi met them at the dock, Kris was introduced to Heidi as Tanta Heida or Aunt Heidi.
Kris' adjustment to the new culture was a hard one. She didn't speak any English. The teacher at school called Gretel and said that Kris was being stubborn. Gretel suggested that it wasn't stubborness but maybe just maybe she didn't understand what was being said to her. The teacher asked Kris something and Gretel asked her if she knew what the teacher had said. Kris just shook her head "no". So they put Kris into speech class. Which was a good thing. As a result Kris didn't pick up a strong New Jersey accent as her older sisters did. She was also called on the carpet for not dressing properly. The style in Germany for girls was much shorter skirts.
The children were hard on Kris also. Since she was German, she was labeled a Nazi. Kris really didn't understand what that was, let alone being one. They made fun of her because she had the habit of curtsying when addressing elders.
Kris' family settled in Jersey City. Not a really great place. Kris said that she was eleven when she first became aware of the Mafia around her.
Out of high school, Kris started working and commuted to Manhattan. It was there she met a motion picture costume consultant, whose name now escapes me. He was twice her age. He was divorced having a child, I think, near Kris' age. He had been a soldier in the war. Besides being captured, he had received an injury that would grow worse as he grew older. This happened while he was sleeping next to a tank that shot a shell. The sound did some inner ear damage.
Kris and this guy became very close and he proposed to her and she accepted. But before they got married, the war injury started to give him progressively worse headaches. So bad that he withdrew his proposal. He flew to his brother's house in Oklahoma. There, he went into the basement and shot himself.
This caused Kris to first get angry, "how could he do this to me?". Then immediate guilt for being so selfish in her response. It would be a few years before she would come to terms with his death and her response. She would go to group therapy. To deal with the loneliness she would join a theater group at St. Bartholemew's and became active in "off off Broadway" musical productions. This pointed her to learning dance, jazz and ballet.
But Manhattan was getting to Kris. Since she had moved in anger away from home to there she had tried her hand at being a lab tech and a key punch operator. These weren't meeting her increasing need for creative expression. The people of New York were getting under her skin also. She speaks of an event that was the last straw. Once during the rush hour, while trying to get home on the subway, some guy stuck his arm in the closing door. Kris, knowing the train would go anywhere until the door was closed, vented her anger at him holding up the parade by bending his fingers back to force him to withdraw his arm. She didn't like what New York was doing to her.
So in 1971 she decided to move to Los Angeles, where one of her sisters had moved. After arriving she held jobs as a waitress and a secretary at a printing firm. She took off with a girlfriend to Texas for a three month period. I think that she worked as a barmaid there. But after a brush with the Mafia there decided it was better in L. A.
She started taking dance classes at Dupree Dance Academy and moved to Burbank. She took a job as a waitress at Don's Restaurant on Glenoaks Blvd. This is just a couple of blocks from my little place on Santa Anita.
When I went in there to eat, I saw her. I didn't know if she was beautiful or ugly. That's a good thing as far as I am concerned. A woman has to look interesting, in my opinion. She has to have character written on her face. Barbie dolls don't interest me. In talking to her I found she had a great sense of humor. She was a dancer, hmm an artist. An awful lot of pluses. I made my move and asked her out. She said she would think about it.
Note: from the Page Link above - You may read more - if you'd like - it's All there - a 'Way Back' . . . per se
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A Scientific Search for Visitation from Extraterrestrial Probes
A New Search Model in the Quest to find ETI
Organization for SETV Research
 
Dr. Philip Morrison / Giuseppe Cocconi
Nature magazine - September 19, 1959 Published Dr. Philip Morrison & Giuseppe Cocconi Article Entitled "Searching for Interstellar Communications" - is rightly considered the founding document of modern SETI
In the article Morrison and Cocconi freely admit that it is impossible to estimate the probability of the existence of alien civilizations on planets orbiting distant stars.
But based on the only example available - that of humans on Earth - they argue that one cannot rule out that there may be very many alien technological societies out there.
Many of them, they argue, may be much older than human societies and far more technologically advanced . . .
Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life - 1978
Sturrock, Peter, A., Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life,
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 19, pp. 521-523, 1978
Introductory paragraph - It appears that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is now a legitimate activity for astronomers and other scientists.
This topic was recently reviewed on behalf of NASA by a panel of distinguished scientists led by professor Philip Morrison. Their primary conclusion is that,
'It is both timely and feasible to begin a serious search for intelligent extraterrestrial radio signals and also outline possible techniques for searching
for planets associated with nearby stars (1)
1. Morrison, P., Billingham, J. & Wolfe, J. (eds), 1977. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, NASA SP-419, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC.
The Recognition of Extraterrestrial Artificial Signals - 1979 / 1980
Seeger, C. L. (NASA Ames Research Center) The Recognition of Extraterrestrial Artificial Signals,
Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, 13th, Pacific Grove, Calif., November 5-7, 1979,
Conference Record. (A81-26601 10-63), Piscataway, N.J., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., pp. 18-22, 1980
Abstract - Considerations in the design of receivers for the detection and recognition of artificial microwave signals of extraterrestrial origin are discussed.
Following a review of the objectives of SETI and the probable reception and detection characteristics of extraterrestrial signals, means for the improvement of
the sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios and on-line data processing capabilities of SETI receivers are indicated. The characteristics of the signals likely to
be present at the output of an ultra-low-noise microwave receiver are then examined, including the system background noise, terrestrial radiations, astrophysical
radiations, accidental artificial radiations of terrestrial origin, and intentional radiations produced by humans and by extraterrestrial intelligence.
The classes of extraterrestrial signals likely to be detected, beacons and leakage signals, are considered, and options in the specification of gating and thresholding
for a high-spectral resolution, high-time-resolution signal discriminator are indicated. Possible tests for the nonhuman origin of a received signal are also pointed out.
. . . an interestin' read to say the least - read more here: References to Pertinent Works <---- click me
We encourage you to educate yourself on this subject by obtaining and reading the works referenced here.
The information contained in these pertinent works embodies what SETV is all about and had a major influence
on the formulation of the SETV search model.
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UC Berkeley NEWS - August 28 2008
. . . FASDI helps Berkeley get its facts together <---- read more
It’s a system focused on integrating data from all over campus into maps, websites, and other platforms that make information
 currently lodged in dozens of silos  more available to all
By Carol Ness, Public Affairs
This is a detail from a FASDI-produced map developed for use
by people, wheelchair-bound or otherwise, who need to know the
slope of various campus pathways. Different colors indicate
steeper or flatter paths.
The core idea is that bringing together  integrating  information that already exists in different departments can make the data more valuable to more people.
In essence, FASDI aims to weave a web of information from the far-flung corners of campus (where data is collected by more than 300 different offices and units)
into a coherent system quickly accessible to anyone who needs it.
Administrators are using FASDI to allocate scarce budget dollars. Emergency planners are using it to prepare for the next big earthquake or burst of domestic
terrorism. Faculty, staff, and students  and even visitors  are using it to navigate an increasingly complex campus.
“Increasingly,†Mead added, “we are going to go toward data integration because that’s the only way to make decisions with scarce resources.â€Â
Patty Mead - Information-Systems Manager in Space Management and Capital Programs - has managed the FASDI effort at Berkeley since 1999
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. . . in the Hallway - Out of the Closet - a reminiscience of the old SETI Classic days during 2002
We posed for this shot after our general meeting, feeling it was time to put our mugs up on the web again.
Standing from left to right: David Anderson, Jeff Cobb, Eric Heien, Dan Werthimer.
Sitting from left to right: Matt Lebofsky, Eric Korpela, Steve Fulton.
Not pictured: Bob Bankay. Eric Person, Paul Demorest, Charlie Fenton,
Hiram Clawson, David Kyo, Cecile Kim. Yes, the table is messy.
Thanks to Dr. Nishiizumi across the way who, after interrupting him in the middle of some work, graciously took this photo.
And here's a nice capture (provided by danw) of the whole closet from the front.
A thing of beauty. Includes the Flag of Earth, the air conditioner, and a peek at
the Compaq disk arrays sitting on the floor behind the E450s
(attached to the science database for extra scratch space).
While Jeff was administering the final touches and turning machines on one by one,
Eric H, Paul, Dan, and Eric K discussed plans and operations out in the hallway.
Matt was busy cleaning up and taking this picture. Very soon the whole project will be back on line!
Now that everything was up and LEDs were blinking, we turned out the lights
and stood in awe at the incredible spectacle before us. A stunned silence
fell upon all those who beheld this newly renovated closet. One last photo
was taken and the doors were closed. Another chapter in the book of SETI@home finished.
Jeff Getting the Cogent link working (May 30, 2002)
. . . The SETI server closet/room 329 before the big "re-org" (May 15, 2002) <--- click me
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. . . another reminescience:
'This is the culmination of more than three years of computing,
the largest computation ever done. It's a milestone for the SETI@home project.'
~ David Anderson, director of SETI@home ~
. . . Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look
Date Released: Monday, March 10, 2003
excerpted
Berkeley - After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide,
the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced
a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look.
Three members of the SETI@home team will head to Puerto Rico this month to point the Arecibo radio
telescope at up to 150 spots identified as the source of possible signals from intelligent civilizations . . . read more <---- click me
excerpted
"I give it a one in 10,000 chance that one of our candidate signals turns out to be from ET," said Werthimer, who will head for Puerto Rico on March 16.
"Whether or not SETI@home succeeds in finding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence at this early date, this project has already made history,"
said Bruce Murray, chairman of The Planetary Society's board of directors. "SETI@home has performed the most sensitive and detailed SETI sky survey
to date, has demonstrated the power of the Internet for doing scientific distributed computing, and has allowed the general public to participate
directly in an exciting research project."
To acknowledge the 4,287,000-plus users who have analyzed radio data, the SETI@home team will post on its Web site the names of those participants
who flagged the candidate signals as a result of data analysis on their home computers. Each candidate signal was analyzed by several people, because
SETI@home sends the same data to more than one person to double-check results . . . read more <---- click me
Strong, coherent signals such as this one quicken the pulse of many a SETI@home project participant.
Unfortunately, all so far have been generated not by ETI, but rather by terrestrial inteference, or
by the Wizards of Arecibo as they inject test signals to verify the proper operation of their equipment
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Since the launch of The SETI@home project in May 1999, we have seen quite a few anomalies. Although
none yet has proved to be of intelligent extra-terrestrial origin, several interesting signals are shown . . . Interesting SETI@home Signals <---- click me
. . . Arecibo: NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER <---- click me
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. . . reminiscin' (again) about My 2002 WebSites [MAC10 System Servers in Los Angeles, Ca.] that took a 'fall' after the COMCAST / ADELPHIA fiasco
. . . Lubrichs Arts Journal - Art Portfolios <---- click me
> via web.archive.org - i have the ability to Re-Build My Past and re-post in My Present Website . . .
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. . . September 24th 2008 - Congratulations Dr. George Spagna on the Billionth Result (and as well, Congratulations to All BOINC Crunchers)
SETI at Home NEWS:
By the way... SETI@home just received its billionth result using BOINC - thanks to everybody
who donated their computing power to help us reach this incredible milestone!
Task Details:
Task ID 1000000000
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Workunit 337672217
Created 24 Sep 2008 6:37:00 UTC
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. . . remembering the beginnin' of this Project: from The Berkeleyan
SETI@home's search for ET signals from space gets a boost
By Robert Sanders, Public Affairs
16 AUGUST 00 | Berkeley's SETI@home Project, scheduled to shut down next year, has a new lease on life thanks to a large gift from The Planetary Society.
The gift will allow the project, which harnesses millions of desktop computers to search for intelligent signals from space, to enhance its scope and increase its search capability to include regions visible only from the southern hemisphere, said project director David Anderson.
The money comes from The Planetary Society through an alliance with Project Voyager, a media startup company founded by Carl Sagan's wife and long-time collaborator, Ann Druyan, and internet entrepreneur Joe Firmage. The society was co-founded by the late Sagan and was the first organization to fund SETI@home.
"This partnership will let millions of people keep participating in SETI@home," Anderson said. "The resources of Project Voyager and The Planetary Society will let us take on exciting new project in the areas of education and community-building."
The funding for SETI@home was announced Aug. 8 by the society at the same time as an unprecedented new strategic alliance between The Planetary Society and the project temporarily named Project Voyager. Project Voyager is a media venture led by Druyan of Carl Sagan Productions and Firmage of IntendChange. Firmage told the San Jose Mercury News that new funding for SETI projects, including SETI@home, would total "several million" dollars.
The new alliance will allow the society to merge the power of space exploration with the tremendous outreach potential of the Internet, expanding its Internet presence and initiating new programs for public participation.
"The Planetary Society's expanded role enables SETI@home to become bigger and better, and continues two decades of society leadership in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence," said Bruce Murray, president of The Planetary Society. "The society has supported SETI continuously since 1980 with a dozen different projects around the world."
SETI@home had been scheduled to end in May 2001, but the increased funding will ensure the program's continuation and extend its operations. Already it is the most powerful computer on Earth, and its progress to date is the largest computation ever done.
The idea of linking computers in a global network to analyze radio data from space originated with David Gedye, a Berkeley computer science graduate and a former student of Anderson, along with Craig Kasnoff and astronomer Woody Sullivan. Four years ago, with $100,000 from The Planetary Society, in cooperation with Paramount Pictures, Anderson and his colleagues at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory began developing the software for the distributed computer project.
The public first got a crack at the software in May of 1999. Since then, 2.2 million people have signed up and downloaded the software. The data they analyze comes from a radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which scans the sky daily and sends the radio data back to Berkeley. There, it is broken up into chunks and delivered to home computers for analysis. SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer and his Berkeley colleagues operate the 22-year-old Arecibo project, called SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations).
In the next couple of years, Anderson and Werthimer hope to analyze radio data from a telescope in the southern hemisphere, complementing the northern hemisphere data from Arecibo.
Other major funders for SETI@home have been Sun Microsystems, which donated computing equipment, and the University of California, which provided matching funds of $300,000 from its Digital Media Innovation Program. Additional sponsors include Quantum Corp., Fuji Film Computer Products, Informix and The SETI Institute.
While Project Voyager will help fund the society's programs, The Planetary Society will provide cutting-edge science content to Project Voyager's Web site. The society and Project Voyager also plan to develop innovative educational material about the project, SETI in general, and the new field of astrobiology.
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. . . 'Chilling Effects' - Monitoring the Legal Climate for Internet Activity
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law.
Chilling Effects welcomes submission of letters from individuals and from Internet service providers and hosts. These submissions enable us to study the prevalence
of legal threats and allow Internet users to see the source of content removals.
Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers
individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate favorite stars, or criticize businesses, but concerned that not everyone feels the same way. Study to
date suggests that cease and desist letters often silence Internet users, whether or not their claims have legal merit. The Chilling Effects project seeks to document
that "chill" and inform C&D recipients of their legal rights in response.
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a unique collaboration among law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Conceived and developed at the Berkman
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Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics, and the EFF . . . read more
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. . . THIS should be of Grave Interest to All
. . . "To: David Anderson", "From: John 37309":
subject: Re: [boinc_projects] Creating a unified marketing effort for all projects
This discussion is continueing;
Message boards : Promotion : Creating a unified marketing effort. for whatever final "brand" BOINC unifies under
Even thought there has been a large increase in the number of new BOINC
projects, BOINC software and the projects themselves are actually declining
in numbers in proportion to general Internet growth. There is a thinning
effect happening. I really do hate to see this happen when with a small
change in direction, BOINC projects could be growing at a considerably
faster rate.
I believe that some kind of collaborative group or organisation needs to be
set up where project administrators and scientists can share resources and
information and possibly even funding for promoting and marketing their
projects on a semi professional level.
Someone must start this initiative to market and sell all the projects as
one single combined entity. If it does not happen and things keep going the
way it is now, the decline will continue and BOINC projects will always be a
minority pastime that only hard-core computer geeks get involved in.
I believe that the only person who can start this new combined marketing and
promotion initiative would have to be someone from the BOINC project
management or the principle investigator or project admin from one of the
top 5 or 6 projects. One person must take the initiative and lead the way.
If BOINC projects are not sold and marketed to the general public as one
combined unit, the current thinning will become much worse.
Marketing and selling the concept of BOINC science projects will work best
if carried out through one promotional website where ALL projects can
contribute to the effort. One single United effort to combine resources into
one website. The BOINC social network, the science social network, the BOINC
science education network, the BOINC science news network, all with relevant
information presented in a way that people enjoy reading and browsing. It
could be all one network!....... Not people working on their own to make
things fit into someone else's social network.
Unite, or BOINC projects will continue to be a minority thing!
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