High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a distributed computing (grid computing) project using Internet-connected computers, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Its purpose is to analyze radio signals, searching for signs of extra terrestrial intelligence. It is one of many activities undertaken as part of SETI. SETI@home was released to the public on May 17, 1999.