Don Backer has passed away.

27/07/2010 02:36:12  -

Don Backer, Berkeley professor and director of the Allen Telescope Array, passed away on Sunday, July 25th. Don was a very important contributor to radio astronomy and to the study of pulsars. He will be missed.

New Thesis

07/06/2010 18:35:52  -

Astropulse: A Search for Microsecond Transient Radio Signals by Joshua von Korff (congratulations, Josh!).

New Paper Describing Berkeley SETI Instruments

27/05/2010 18:49:02  -

Here is the pdf of another paper presented at the Astrobiology Science Conference. This paper describes the various strategies and instruments developed by Berkeley SETI / CASPER team, with a focus on hardware.

New Paper on the NTPCkr and RFI Rejection

26/05/2010 20:53:20  -

Here is the pdf of a new paper describing our strategy for rejecting interference and finding candidate signals. This paper was presented at the Astrobiology Science Conference which was held April 26-29 in Texas.

Interview on www.seti.cl

12/05/2010 00:25:52  -

David Anderson, director of BOINC and SETI@home, is interviewed on www.seti.cl (Spanish, English).

The Great Debate - video now available

03/05/2010 23:56:35  -

You can now see video from "The Great Debate - Are we Alone?", publicly held by Dan Werthimer and Geoff Marcy on April 30th at UC Berkeley.

Italian IRC channel

24/04/2010 00:14:47  -

The IRC channel #boinc-it on irc.freenode.net has been created for discussion of BOINC and SETI@home in Italian.

"Are We Alone?" The Great Debate

15/03/2010 17:47:27  -

Planet-hunter Geoff Marcy and SETI scientist Dan Werthimer will be having a public debate about the existence of technological life in the universe on Friday, April 30, 2010 (7:30pm) at UC Berkeley. Free admission. Click here for more information. Update: This will be streamed live. When exactly? It depends where you are.

Video on making a desktop supercomputer

03/03/2010 21:58:52  -

Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer.

Designer of the Arecibo telescope has passed away.

22/02/2010 03:23:21  -

William E. Gordon, the designer of the Arecibo radio telescope, has passed away at the age of 92.