About SETI@home (in Japanese)

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原文: About SETI@home

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The science of SETI@home

Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power.

Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.

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Dr. David P. Anderson, Director

David is a computer scientist, with research interests in volunteer computing, distributed systems, and real-time systems. He also runs the BOINC project.

David is a rock climber, mountain climber, classical pianist, and father of Noah (born Oct 2005).

Dan Werthimer, Chief scientist

Dan specializes in signal processing for radio astronomy. He has been doing SETI since 1979, and he runs the SERENDIP, Optical SETI, and CASPER projects.

Dan dabbles in jazz piano, and is the father of a 4-year old son, William.

Dr. Eric Korpela, Project scientist

Eric is an astronomer. In addition to SETI, he studies interstellar matter (the gas and dust that lies between the stars) using radio, optical, and space-based ultraviolet telescopes. He has participated in several satellite missions, most recently SPEAR/FIMS, a collaboration between US and Korean astronomers.

In his spare time, Eric collects and restores vintage computers. Eric also enjoys bass fishing.

Jeff Cobb, Software developer and system administrator

Jeff develops data acquisition and analysis software and oversees the systems group.

He likes to go off line in order to backpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains. When in warm waters, you'll find him scuba diving.

Matt Lebofsky, Software developer and system administrator

Matt is a computer scientist working on SETI since 1997. More detail about what he does can be found here.

Matt is also a professional musician - a multi-instrumentalist composer and recording engineer that tours with rock bands and performs at weddings, conventions, etc. In spare time he's probably hiking, backpacking, or rock climbing.

Robert Bankay, Database administrator

Bob manages SETI@home's Informix and MySQL databases. He previously worked in computer-telephony on high availability/high performance systems, OS and DB performance, and investigating failure mechanisms in solid state devices.

His interests include wine tasting and eating. Favourite types of cooking include Indian, West Indian (jerk pork/chicken), South American BBQ, Sechuan, Cantonese and Californian.

Court Cannick, System administrator

Dr. Kevin Douglas, Postdoctoral research associate

Kevin is a radio astronomer, specializing in the study of the interstellar medium. He is an expert at observing Galactic hydrogen with the Arecibo multibeam receiver called ALFA, to which SETI@home recently installed its new data recorder.

Kevin is married, with one son. You can read more about Kevin's interests by visiting his Homepage.

Josh Von Korff, Graduate student

	Dr. David P. Anderson, Director David is a computer scientist, with research interests in volunteer computing, distributed systems, and real-time systems. He also runs the BOINC project. David is a rock climber, mountain climber, classical pianist, and father of Noah (born Oct 2005).		Dan Werthimer, Chief scientist Dan specializes in signal processing for radio astronomy. He has been doing SETI since 1979, and he runs the SERENDIP, Optical SETI, and CASPER projects. Dan dabbles in jazz piano, and is the father of a 4-year old son, William.
	Dr. Eric Korpela, Project scientist Eric is an astronomer. In addition to SETI, he studies interstellar matter (the gas and dust that lies between the stars) using radio, optical, and space-based ultraviolet telescopes. He has participated in several satellite missions, most recently SPEAR/FIMS, a collaboration between US and Korean astronomers. In his spare time, Eric collects and restores vintage computers. Eric also enjoys bass fishing.		Jeff Cobb, Software developer and system administrator Jeff develops data acquisition and analysis software and oversees the systems group. He likes to go off line in order to backpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains. When in warm waters, you'll find him scuba diving.
	Matt Lebofsky, Software developer and system administrator Matt is a computer scientist working on SETI since 1997. More detail about what he does can be found here. Matt is also a professional musician - a multi-instrumentalist composer and recording engineer that tours with rock bands and performs at weddings, conventions, etc. In spare time he's probably hiking, backpacking, or rock climbing.		Robert Bankay, Database administrator Bob manages SETI@home's Informix and MySQL databases. He previously worked in computer-telephony on high availability/high performance systems, OS and DB performance, and investigating failure mechanisms in solid state devices. His interests include wine tasting and eating. Favourite types of cooking include Indian, West Indian (jerk pork/chicken), South American BBQ, Sechuan, Cantonese and Californian.
	Court Cannick, System administrator		Dr. Kevin Douglas, Postdoctoral research associate Kevin is a radio astronomer, specializing in the study of the interstellar medium. He is an expert at observing Galactic hydrogen with the Arecibo multibeam receiver called ALFA, to which SETI@home recently installed its new data recorder. Kevin is married, with one son. You can read more about Kevin's interests by visiting his Homepage.
	Josh Von Korff, Graduate student