SETI Funding and Support

We are extremely pleased to announce three recent major donations that have arrived at this very crucial time. The SETI Institute has provided a very substantial grant which will cover the majority of the expenses of the SERENDIP IV sky survey. The Planetary Society has provided additional funding which was used to finish up the SERENDIP IV system, install it at the Arecibo telescope and will help with operating costs. Sun Microsystems has donated two of their fastest workstations to process the huge data set that SERENDIP IV will produce. We have also received a number of donations from private individuals which have helped with our ongoing expenses.


Friends of the Search...
... we need your help!


Thanks to our innovative piggybacking approach and the outstanding capabilities of the SERENDIP instruments, SERENDIP has been able to obtain substantial amounts of prime telescope time and ranks among the leaders in world-wide SETI efforts. In the course of our 17 year program, we have built a number of instruments. Sponsorship by the Plantetary Society and the SETI Institute made possible the installation of our latest instrument at Arecibo and will cover much of the operating expenses. However, in order to ensure its continuing success, the project still needs donors. A group of individuals has formed "The Friends of SERENDIP" to coordinate funding efforts. This group is headed by science and fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and founding members include SETI noteworthies such as Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, as well as Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg. All contributions to The Friends of SERENDIP are administered by UC Berkeley.

For more information about The Friends of SERENDIP, contact sereninfo@ssl.berkeley.edu.


Major Sponsors of the SERENDIP Project

The Friends of SERENDIP

The Planetary Society

The SETI Institute

Toshiba

Sun Microsystems

Xilinx

Intel


Equipment contributions have also been made by AWA, Austek, Harris Semiconductors and Microtec Research.

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