Clarification

Back in July, I plugged the SETI screensaver that allows you to donate your idle computer time to processing data gathered in the search for a signal from intelligent beings in outer space.

I was not aware at the time that SETI is actually a fairly generic acronym, and there are many Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence that use the term. The screen saver is part of the University of California-Berkeley's SETI project. It is not affiliated with the SETI Institute, which is what most people think of when they hear SETI, since it once had a rather complicated relationship with NASA (for more on that, click here). The nature of the SETI Institute's search projects require that the data be analyzed in real time as it comes in, so that project is not farmed out. However, in the SETI Institute's podcast, they did go on record as being in favor of Berkeley's project and the screen saver.