[LINK] laptop found through SETI at home project tracker

[Jan Whitaker]

>http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070221/D8NE9RA02.html

Feb 21, 2:28 PM (ET)

By RACHEL KONRAD

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University 
of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers 
worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've 
found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.

The Berkeley effort, better known as SETI(at)home, uses volunteers' 
computers when they go into screen-saver mode to crunch data from the 
Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico. The computers are trying to 
spot signals in the radio noise from space.

One volunteer, James Melin, a software programmer for a county 
government agency in Minnesota, runs SETI(at)home on his seven home 
computers, which periodically check in with University of California 
servers. Whenever that happens, the servers record the remote 
computer's Internet Protocol address and file it in a database that 
people running the SETI software can view.

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