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The SETI Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit organization in 1984 by Thomas Pierson (former CEO), and Dr. Jill Tarter.Financial and leadership support over the life of the SETI Institute has included Carl Sagan, Bernard Oliver, David Packard, William Hewlett, Gordon Moore, Paul Allen, Nathan Myhrvold, Lewis Platt, and Greg Papadopoulos.
The Berkeley SETI Research Center also hosts the Breakthrough Listen program, [4] [5] [6] which is a ten-year initiative with $100 million funding begun in July 2015 to actively search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the universe, in a substantially expanded way, using resources that had not previously been extensively used for the purpose.
The SETI Institute named the telescope in Allen's honor. Overall, Paul Allen contributed more than $30 million to the project. The ATA is a centimeter-wave array which pioneers the Large-Number Small-Diameter concept of building radio telescopes .
Hat Creek Radio Observatory is located approximately 467 km (290 mi) northeast of San Francisco, California at an elevation of 986 m (3235 ft) above Sea Level in Hat Creek, California (in Shasta County). Latitude: 40° 49' 03" N; longitude: 121° 28' 24" W. The nearest large city to Hat Creek is Redding, California on highway I-5.
Florence is an unincorporated community in California. It is often considered part of South Los Angeles. It is serviced by area code 323 and has a ZIP Code of 90001. It is the northern part of the Florence-Graham CDP.
Pierson was an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and has received numerous recognitions, including an individual NASA Public Service Medal, and the NASA Public Service Group Award [11] given to the SETI Institute and all of its staff for excellence in carrying out research and education in the areas of life in the ...
Berkeley astronomers used the ATA to pursue several science topics, some of which might have transient SETI signals, [40] [41] [42] until 2011, when the collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute was terminated. CNET published an article and pictures about the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) on December 12 ...
The LaserSETI observatory at Robert Ferguson Observatory in California. Credit: Eliot Gillum. LaserSETI started in 2015 as a program of the SETI Institute, though the official name was not made public until 2016. Founded by Eliot Gillum, the project began with a small team dedicated to the design, construction and scientific priorities of ...