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Fun at OSCON

I gave a keynote talk at OSCON this morning to let the open source community know about setiQuest and to ask for their help to make it shine. I guess the attendees were pretty tired of slides filled with logos and lines of text surrounded by curly-brackets, because the talk was very well received and they were delighted to see images of radio telescopes and galaxies. Throughout the day people stopped me to say how much they enjoyed our exciting exploration and the larger, cosmic perspective it encourages. Even though the session wasn’t in the program and the splashy pro

setiQuest 3.0 Released

Today we are releasing setiQuest 3.0. We are excited about two major new capabilities offered by this website. You can now:

  1. Download SonATA software binaries, and
  2. Get access to setiCloud (hosted by Amazon.com) for trying out new algorithms on ATA data.

There are a number of other changes on the website. Some of the user interface has changed, so some of it may look unfamiliar to you. In addition, we have improved on or added many of the features that you all told us about.

May 2010 Update from setiQuest

Last two months on the setiQuest project have been good.

Stephen Hawking and SETI

(April 26, 2010) Today I am at AbSciCon 2010, a meeting on astrobiology in League City TX, and I did manage to attend the first session this morning before having to step out to reply to media enquiries.  
 

Media Coverage of setiQuest announcement from last week

Following our press annoncement last week, a number of media stories appeared on the project. CNN was the most prolific media source. Here are a few sample stories out of many.

Release of first information from SETI Institute under setiQuest project

Today is an exciting day. After months of preparation, we are putting out the first two sets of data in the public domain. This is the data we have collected from space through the Allen Telescope Array, in our search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

TEDx Berkeley

Saturday, I attended TEDx Berkeley-2010, organized by graduating senior Jessica Mah. The talks were great! The UC Berkeley campus is a special place for me – it’s where I first got interested in SETI as a graduate student, and it’s where I met my husband Jack Welch (he had a radio telescope at Hat Creek Observatory that the original SERENDIP project wanted to use for SETI).

Update on setiQuest

Thank you everyone for registering your interest in setiQuest. It is an exciting project, and we look forward to collaborating with you on expanding the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
 
About People Who Have Registered With Us
Here are some observations from the mails we have received.
  • Range from school students to retirees, and everyone in between.
  • Come from six continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia

Thoughts on South By Southwest & TED

Last week I went to the South by Southwest conference in Austin.

Thank you for your support

It has been a week since the team returned from TED 2010 in Long Beach, California. We are still giddy from the enthusiasm and excitement that we saw for setiQuest at TED and subsequent to it.

We launched a new version of the website, with an animation video done by Nigel Holmes based on a script by Gever Tulley. It explains some of what setiQuest is attempting to do in very simple terms.

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