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Prof. Charles Townes has passed away.
We were saddened to learn that colleague Professor Charles Townes died this morning, January 27th, at the age of 99. A professor at UC Berkeley since 1967, Townes had a long and distinguished career, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 for work that led to the development of the laser. He was active in research as recently as last year, making regular visits to his office at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, and to Mount Wilson Observatory where he worked to develop the Infrared Spatial Interferometer telescope. His broad research interests included the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - as co-author of a 1961 paper, he was one of the first to discuss interstellar communication using lasers. This gave rise to the rapidly growing field of optical SETI, including searches currently underway at UC Berkeley. Prof. Townes also served as an Advisory Board Member to the new Foundation for Investing in Research on SETI Science and Technology. We will miss him here at UC Berkeley, and send our condolences to his wife Frances and family.
27 Jan 2015, 23:16:09 UTC
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Marvin crashed
It appears that the root partition filled on marvin (rapidly) while I was AFK, for no reason that I am aware of, which caused it to crash. Nobody is at the colocation facility right now, so the astropulse DB is down. I'll try to get remote accesses for a reboot, but chances are that marvin is down until monday morning.
21 Dec 2014, 4:46:29 UTC
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Own a piece of SETI history.
Help SETI@home and own a piece of SETI@home history! Check out these auctions of SETI@home museum pieces
17 Dec 2014, 22:54:18 UTC
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Astropulse database fix is complete.
Validators and assimilators and splitters are back on. New Astropulse work should be flowing soon.
8 Dec 2014, 18:46:58 UTC
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New Data from AO
The four disks from AO have arrived - about 5TB of data. I have queued them up for pre-processing (radar blanking) so new SETI@Home workunits should be going out soon.
5 Dec 2014, 17:54:33 UTC
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