David P. Anderson's “SETI@home” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1999, category Net Based Art.
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internetconnected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
About David P. Anderson
David Anderson (US) is Chief Technology Officer at Tunes.com. A former member of the Computer Science faculty at UC Berkeley, he has authored 65 research papers on operating systems, distributed computing, computer music, and computer graphics.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.