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Dear SETI@home user:

Thanks for your participation in SETI@home.  I'm happy to say that
the project is going extremely well, thanks to the continued support of
our millions of users. This newsletter covers the following:

    - Project status
    - Release of version 3 software
    - New sponsorship from One Cosmos and The Planetary Society
    - New SETI@home gear is here

Dr. David P. Anderson
Project Director, SETI@home
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

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PROJECT STATUS

Halfway through our second year of operation, SETI@home has processed
over 7000 hours of digitally-recorded signals from the Arecibo radio
telescope, using the power of millions of Internet-connected computers.
As this processing continues, SETI@home's own computers are
doing the next phase, in which we separate man-made radio signals from
those originating outside our solar system.  Our goal is to detect
signals from other civilizations.

By using the Internet to form the world's most powerful computer,
SETI@home has inspired other scientific computing projects,
and is often credited (along with Napster) with defining a
new generation of computer system design, called "peer-to-peer".

Because of the strong continued interest in SETI@home, the project will
continue for at least a year beyond its original ending time.  Plans are
not finalized, but we hope to expand our search to the 
southern-hemisphere sky, and to search new frequency bands.

We will also try to make SETI@home more fun and interesting by adding 
new content and features to our web site.  Our small but hard-working
staff (5 part-time members) has had little time to work on this area,
but we're expanding our efforts.

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RELEASE OF VERSION 3 SOFTWARE

After almost a year of testing and debugging, we recently released a
major new version of our screensaver program.  The new version does
much better signal analysis; it looks for two new types of signals
(pulses and triplets) and it covers a wider range of drift rates.
As a result, it takes more time to process each work unit.

The old version of SETI@home should automatically notify you when 
it's time to upgrade to the new version. You can download and 
install it from our web site:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/download.html

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NEW SPONSORSHIP FROM ONE COSMOS NETWORK AND THE PLANETARY SOCIETY

We're proud to announce an alliance of SETI@home with One Cosmos Network
and The Planetary Society.  This alliance will give us the financial
support necessary to continue and expand SETI@home, as well as 
enabling us to provide a richer Web experience.

Founded by Internet executive Joe Firmage and Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's 
wife and collaborator of 20 years, One Cosmos Network is dedicated to 
carrying on Sagan's effort to humanize science and bring it to people
everywhere.  Toward this end, One Cosmos is constructing an Internet
portal, OneCosmos.net, and a production studio, Cosmos Studios, which
will create compelling science-based entertainment for television and film.
Their first release is an updated, digitally remastered Collector's Edition
of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning 13-hour television series, "Cosmos."
The series is currently available for purchase in DVD or VHS format,
with "The Music of Cosmos" available separately in a double-CD format;
find them at http://OneCosmos.net.

The Planetary Society is the founding sponsor of SETI@home, and its
membership is open to anyone who shares the goals of exploring our
solar system and searching for extraterrestrial life.  In fact, the
Society supports six different SETI efforts, along with many other
projects in space exploration.  We encourage you to join 
The Planetary Society and help advance their many worthy programs at
http://planetary.org/html/member/JoinUs.html

We are also extremely grateful to our other sponsors, including
the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program,
Sun Microsystems, Fuji Film Computer Products, Quantum, and 
the SETI Institute.

Thanks also to the hundreds of individuals who have made
contributions to SETI@home.  Their names are listed at
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donorlist.html

SETI@home is free for everyone, but if you can consider
making a tax-deductible donation to SETI@home, please visit
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor.html.

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NEW SETI@HOME GEAR IS HERE

While our goal is to detect life in outer space, we can't do that
without the support of our fellow Earthlings.  Last year, we introduced
several SETI@home products in our online store.  The response was so
great that this year we've expanded the product line.  There are great
new sweatshirts, mugs, T-shirts, jackets, desk clocks, lapel pins,
patches, and even a heat-sensitive mouse pad.  Want more?  How about
your very own, very elegant, blown-glass globe? Or (our personal
favorite) a stylus, red and black pens, and mechanical pencil packed
into one very cool gravity-fed tool.  You'll find them all online at
http://www.exploratoriumstore.com/setihome.html.

The profits from each sale help fund the SETI@home project.

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