Found out about SETI@home while a student at the University of Delaware
I consider the SETI@home project to be a good use of the otherwise wasted CPU cycles of computer systems.
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.
