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Some of the most well known projects are run by Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute.

SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project " Phoenix ", backed by private sources of funding.

According to Miss Tarter, in 2012 it costs around "$ 2 million a year to keep SETI research going at the SETI Institute " and approximately 10 times that to support " all kinds of SETI activity around the world.

The SETI Institute has been collaborating with the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop a specialized radio telescope array for SETI studies, something like a mini-cyclops array.

The current protocol for SETI Institute is to first internally investigate the signal, seeking independent verification and confirmation.

The SETI Institute does not officially recognise the Wow!

Supporting the view of aggression, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, speculates that the finite quantity of resources in the galaxy and the " explorer " nature of any civilization would cause it to be aggressive in the same way that human explorers have been historically.

He serves on the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute.

* SETI Institute, an astronomical research organization

* SETIcon, a convention organized by the SETI Institute

This record was equalled by a team led by Dr. Nathalie A. Cabrol ( SETI Institute / NASA Ames ) in 2006.

The co-investigator institutions included Malin Space Science Systems ( California ), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research ( Germany ), NASA Ames Research Center ( California ), NASA Johnson Space Center ( Texas ), MDA ( Canada ), Optech Incorporated ( Canada ), SETI Institute, Texas A & M University, Tufts University, University of Colorado, University of Copenhagen ( Denmark ), University of Michigan, University of Neuchâtel ( Switzerland ), University of Texas at Dallas, University of Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, and York University ( Canada ).

It is run by the independently funded SETI Institute of Mountain View, California, USA.

Jill Cornell Tarter ( born January 16, 1944 ) is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute.

" She was project scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey ( HRMS ) in 1992 and 1993 and subsequently director of Project Phoenix ( HRMS reconfigured ) under the auspices of the SETI Institute.

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In 2003, Radio source SHGb02 + 14a was isolated by SETI @ home analysis, although it has largely been discounted by further study.

The United States government contributed to early SETI projects, but recent work has been primarily funded by private sources.

In 1986, UC Berkeley initiated their second SETI effort, SERENDIP II, and has continued with four more SERENDIP efforts to the present day.

In the SETI context, the name has been used for radio telescopes in fiction ( Arthur C. Clarke, " Imperial Earth "; Carl Sagan, " Contact "), was the name initially used for the NASA study ultimately known as " Cyclops ," and is the name given to an omnidirectional radio telescope design being developed at the Ohio State University.

As of June 28, 2009 the SETI @ home project has over 180, 000 active participants volunteering a total of over 290, 000 computers.

As of 2010, after 10 years of data collection, SETI @ home has listened to that one frequency at every point of over 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo with a least 3 scans ( out of the goal of 9 scans ), which covers about 20 percent of the full celestial sphere.

The International Academy of Astronautics ( IAA ) has a long-standing SETI Permanent Study Group ( SPSG, formerly called the IAA SETI Committee ), which addresses matters of SETI science, technology, and international policy.

SETI Institute's Seth Shostak has claimed that knowledge of the discovery would likely leak as early as the verification process.

" For example, Peter Schenkel, while remaining a supporter of SETI projects, has written that " n light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest and to take a more down-to-earth view ... We should quietly admit that the early estimates — that there may be a million, a hundred thousand, or ten thousand advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy — may no longer be tenable.

SETI has also occasionally been the target of criticism by those who suggest that it is a form of pseudoscience.

Friedman has challenged SETI specialists to debate the issues, with no takers so far.

The SETI program began with Paul Horowitz ’ s Suitcase SETI and has grown to encompass searches in radio and optical wavelengths from the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth.

As one of the nearest Sun-like stars with the potential for a planet that may harbor life, Epsilon Eridani has been the target of SETI searches.

The SETI project has for the past several decades been conducting a search for signals being transmitted by extraterrestrial life located outside the solar system, primarily in the radio frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The system has been discovered to contain a pair of binary brown dwarfs, and has long been a prime candidate in SETI studies.

The first of these goals has to date yielded no conclusive results: no evidence for ETI signals has been shown via SETI @ home.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

optical SETI, also exist.

Active SETI, also known as messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence ( METI ), consists of sending signals into space in the hope that they will be picked up by an alien intelligence.

Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, suggested that passive SETI could also be dangerous in the style of computer viruses.

SETI or Seti may also refer to:

BOINC has been developed by a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory ( SSL ) at the University of California, Berkeley led by David Anderson, who also leads SETI @ home.

He is also a recognized pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ( SETI ).

It has also contributed to radio observation for the SETI project.

Leuschner Observatory is also home to an optical SETI experiment, carried out under the direction of UC Berkeley astronomer Dan Werthimer.