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Dan Werthimer

SETI Chief ScientistUniversity of CaliforniaSpace Sciences Laboratory
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Biography

Dan Werthimer is Chief Scientist of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and principal investigator of SETI@home and CASPER, the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research. Dan has testified to congress about SETI, holds the Frank Drake Award for SETI research and the Carl Sagan award for science education, and published 300 papers in the fields of SETI, astronomy, and science education. Dan was in the “Homebrew Computer Club” with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; everyone in that club became ultra-rich, except Dan.