SETI@home Tenth Anniversary Celebration
The public launch of SETI@home took place on 17 May 1999. We celebrated the tenth anniversary of this event on 21 May 2009 at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.Program - NEW! includes links to videos
| Time | Speaker | Topic | High Bandwidth | Low Bandwidth | |||
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| 10:00 | David Anderson | Welcome | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 10:15 | David Gedye | The genesis of SETI@home | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 10:30 | Woody Sullivan | SETI and Astrobiology | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 10:45 | Dan Werthimer | The scientific design of SETI@home | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 11:50 | Greg Papadopoulos | Reflections on SETI@home and the future of distributed computing | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||
| 13:00 | Eric Korpela | The scientific evolution of SETI@home | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 14:15 | David Anderson | SETI@home and citizen cyber-science | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 15:00 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 15:30 | Jeff Cobb and Matt Lebofsky | The SETI@home data pipeline | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | 16:30 | Panel discussion | Questions (live and by email) |
| 17:00 | Dan Werthimer | The future of SETI | MPEG 1.3Mb/s 720x480 | DivX 250kb/s 320x240 | |||
| 17:30 | Adjourn |
Participation
SETI@home volunteers and all others can participate in the celebration in the following ways.Webcast
The event was broadcast live on the web.
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SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.