Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's just way too much to listen to," Leigh says, explaining the need for the equipment. "Computers can sit there humming away 24 hours nonstop. Mostly what they do is throw stuff away...
...would go around to flea markets and junk yards and find electronic equipment," Leigh says...
...project had moved on-line. Darren L. Leigh, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the equipment used in the Harvard SETI project and who has served as one of Horowitz's research assistants since 1992, helped build computers that screen the frequencies and then "send you e-mail if it has a possibly right signal," Leigh says. This project was called Billion Channel Extraterrestrial Assay, or BETA and is the system still in operation today...
...Harvard SETI project received funding from NASA in 1991 until appropriations were axed by Senator Richard H. Bryan (D-Nev.) in 1994. To fund BETA, Leigh says the group relied on support from private foundations such as the Planetary Society and on sample parts donated by companies like Hewlett Packard, Micron and Intel...
...Reported by Leigh Anne Williams/Peggy's Cove, Harriet Barovick/New York City, Mark Thompson/Washington, Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral, and Helena Bachmann/Geneva