Place

Berkeley, CA

United States

37.87 N, 122.26 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

2 events here, 1999 to 2020, in date order.

  1. Media

    SETI@home launches

    UC Berkeley's SETI@home project went public, letting volunteers' home computers search Arecibo radio telescope data for narrow-band signals that might come from another civilization. About a million people joined quickly; no confirmed signal was found.

  2. Media

    SETI@home stops sending out new work

    UC Berkeley's SETI@home, which used volunteers' home computers to search radio data for alien signals, stopped distributing new work on March 31, 2020, citing diminishing returns. The team moved to analyzing its accumulated results.