The Washington Post, November 12th, 1999
SETI@home aims to tackle one of the biggest computing problems in history, so big that a $900 home computer may wind up solving it--if a $100 cell phone doesn't get there first. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home is the highest-profile experiment yet in "distributed computing." This approach breaks gargantuan problems into smaller segments that can be attacked with personal computers, then uses the Internet to send out these slices and collect the results. It's a rough equivalent of Tom Sawyer getting every other boy in town to whitewash the fence, one plank at a time. So ...
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