Stories about: SETI

Elizabeth Cochran sensed an opportunity to save lives when she realized laptops can be used as seismometers to detect earthquakes.

Security experts are saying that a reported al-Qaeda cyber jihad attack planned against Western institutions should be treated with skepticism.

Google and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia, they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.

You know those pesky but necessary CAPTCHA boxes whose squiggly letters and digits you need to retype to make use of certain parts of sites such as Yahoo, Wikipedia and PayPal?

Looking for a perfectly good reason to buy a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) game system? How about this: Starting at the end of this month, PS3 users can help researchers at Stanford University find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

Along with the Howard Stern Show, another radio endeavor involving alien life forms is going off the air this week; SETI@Home, a grid supercomputer project for detecting signs of extra terrestrial life from deep space, officially ended Dec. 15.

News that a nine-year-old encryption method -- one that underlies the protection of virtually all secure online communications -- appears to have been cracked by a team of three Chinese researchers has spurred encryption experts around the world to issue a call to action.

Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers are not already running the SETI@home screen saver, IBM and United Devices on Tuesday launched a new World Community Grid project designed to act as a clearing house for humanitarian computing projects.

The creator of the world's largest distributed computing project SETI@home was in Australia this week spruiking local participation in his supercomputing vision.

A massive grid computing network is being created to use the idle computing cycles in millions of computers around the world to find a cure for smallpox.

The search for life in outer space hit a snag last week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems. A group of vandals apparently disrupted cables in the SETI@Home network while searching for valuable copper wire.