SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 56-61

  Anderson, David P ^a,b   Cobb, Jeff ^a   Korpela, Eric ^a   Lebofsky, Matt ^a   Werthimer, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b United Devices   (United States)

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EID: 0037995929     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/581571.581573     Document Type: Article

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