SETI Releases Its Collected Data to the Public, Wants Open-Source Search for Whatever's Out There
Your chance to spot 50 years' worth of sneakily concealed aliens Over the past decade, those who wished to contribute to SETI's mission of locating life elsewhere in the universe could leave their computers on running a special screensaver and donate their unused computing power to the cause. Now, SETI director Jill Tarter is asking people around the globe to get more involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by opening up SETI's servers to the public calling for a worldwide, open source contribution to the search. Tarter says: In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest. SETI's data, compiled from 25 years of scanning the skies with advanced astronomical telescopes, will be made available on...