【SETI@home】三封邮件
粗略看了一遍，感觉是项目又缺钱了，不过还是有一些有价值的信息。（特意把两位的照片加上了SETI@home is reconnecting people to science
Dear SETI@home volunteer:
I'm David P. Anderson, Director of SETI@home.
As an active SETI@home volunteer you participate in a global collaborative project that uses personal computers to search for signals of extraterrestrial origin. I thank you for taking part in this effort, and ask for your financial support
to help us continue our efforts in 2010 and beyond.
SETI@home is doing great science: it's the most sensitive SETI search of its type. But its importance extends much farther. SETI@home pioneered the idea of doing scientific computing using large numbers of Internet-connected personal computers. This approach, "volunteer computing", is now being used by projects in many areas of science, such as climate and environmental study, biological and medical research, astronomy, and particle physics.
Volunteer computing provides more computing power than the fastest conventional supercomputer. BOINC, the software used by most volunteer computing projects, is a spin-off of SETI@home. SETI@home also inspired projects like Stardust@home that use volunteers' human skills rather than their computers.
SETI@home has had a major role in growing the worldwide public's interest and involvement in science, in creating on-line communities centered around science, and ultimately in giving the public more control over the directions of scientific progress.
I hope you will take a moment to marvel with me at the success of this effort, and that you can support our continuing work with a financial gift. SETI@home would appreciate any donation amount you can afford, and your gift is tax-deductible
.
SETI@home plans for 2010:
Deploy and refine the Near-Time Persistency Checker (NTPCkr) which makes SETI@home more efficient in identifying candidate signals.
Develop a web based system that will allow volunteers to view, as well as help in the ranking of, candidate signals.
Expand the frequency coverage of our search beyond the current 2.5Mhz band.
Improve how we identify and reject Earth-generated radio frequency interference (RFI).
To see the progress of our fundraising efforts or learn more about SETI@home, please visit our website.
Sincerely,
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/images/david.jpg
David P. Anderson
SETI@home Director
Space Science Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
A year-end update from SETI@home
Dear SETI@home volunteer,
I'm Dan Werthimer, the Chief Scientist of the SETI@home project.
You've been identified as one of our most active volunteers, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your efforts this past year. I also want to preview our plans for 2010, and ask for your financial support
.
SETI@home is a unique global collaborative project that uses spare cycles on personal computers to help search for signals of extraterrestrial origin. Our vision to embark on this grand search is over ten years old, and continues to engage volunteers such as you from all over the world.
In order to improve SETI@home in 2010 and accomplish our scientific goals, we are reaching out to our loyal volunteers for financial support
, as this venture is largely funded by individual donations.
Our goals for 2010 include:
* Deploy and refine the Near-Time Persistency Checker (NTPCkr) which makes SETI@home more efficient in identifying candidate signals.
* Develop a web based system that will allow volunteers to view, as well as help in the ranking of, candidate signals.
* Expand the frequency coverage of our search beyond the current 2.5MHz band.
* Improve how we identify and reject Earth-generated radio frequency interference (RFI).
With your financial support we can accomplish all these goals in 2010. We would greatly appreciate any donation amount you can afford, and your gift is tax-deductible
.
Thanks again for your time and dedication to SETI@home. Your effort and donations are what make this venture possible.
Sincerely,
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/images/dan.jpg
Dan Werthimer
SETI@home Chief Scientist
Space Science Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
The SETI@home community
Dear SETI@home Volunteer,
I'm Eric Korpela, an astronomer and the project scientist of SETI@home.
Since before it started back in 1999, SETI@home was seen as not just a science project, but as a community. Ten years later, we've watched SETI@home become a place for our volunteers to get to know each other, discuss the science behind SETI@home, and other issues of the day.
As a part of this community, we're hoping you will contribute financial support
to help us keep this community vibrant in 2010 and beyond.
At our help desk you can always find a volunteer who can help you with questions about using SETI@home. If necessary, you can even find a volunteer who will advise you via the free Internet calling service Skype.
We're planning some exciting new features for the coming year to keep the community closely involved with the science of SETI@home. Automation can only go so far in helping us identify which of the billions of potential signals are worthy of further study. Eventually a human being needs to decide. We hope to enlist our volunteers to examine our best signal candidates in more detail to help us identify regions of the sky that should be re-observed.
There are other ways that we're counting on the volunteer community to help SETI@home, such as translating the website into 17 languages besides English, optimizing our software for various architectures, finding bugs in the software, and porting the data analysis code to new graphics processors. We're also counting on the volunteer community to organize teams and competitions between teams, and creating team websites. Finally, we'll need help designing a new SETI@home logo.
These new features and projects aren't without cost. That's why we're hoping that you'll be able to make a tax deductible contribution to SETI@home. Any gift, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/images/eric.jpg
Eric Korpela
Project Scientist, SETI@home
Space Science Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
[ 本帖最后由 昂宿星团人 于 2009-12-29 18:04 编辑 ] 我也收到了。 我早就收到了，年末不管哪边都缺钱。。
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年“关”。 大概看了一下，貌似明天还不会停的样子起码没有赤果果的喊缺钱 今天打开邮箱，收到了第三封，看来SETI目前非常缺钱 看到一整页的英文的时候第一个反映就是....看不懂...- -..... 完全没理。。。 看不太懂 现在还是只有贡献计算资源的能力。。。希望项目能长久运行下去
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