Berkeley SETI Research Center, Research center in Berkeley, US
The Berkeley SETI Research Center is a research center at the University of California in Berkeley that scans the universe for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth. It uses radio telescopes, infrared detectors, and optical instruments spread across multiple observatories worldwide.
The center was founded in 2012 as part of the University of California, building on decades of earlier SETI work done at Berkeley. Starting in 2015, it took the lead on Breakthrough Listen, the most thorough search for extraterrestrial signals ever carried out.
The center is located on the University of California campus in Berkeley and functions primarily as an active research facility rather than a public venue. Those interested in its work can explore its online resources or join the BOINC volunteer program to take part in the search from home.
The SETI@home project, developed by the Berkeley team, turned ordinary home computers into distributed analysis units for telescope data, making it one of the first large citizen science efforts in the world. At its peak, it was the largest distributed computing network on Earth, ahead of commercial supercomputers.
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