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  • Sun funds Seti@home

    Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.

  • SETI@home yields to pressure to curb cheating

    Administrators of the alien-hunting distributed computing experiment SETI@home have announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics on computing power lent to the project following a united protest from its chief contributors.

  • Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home: participants

    The SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring reports that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants that threaten to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects.

  • SETI@home director denies funding crisis

    SETI@home director David Anderson has spoken out to calm fears sparked by the project's chief scientist, Dan Werthimer, that the project is under threat of closing.

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