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Stephen Evans is a former software engineer who has retired for health reasons, he's 44 years old as of Feb 2006 and now enjoys working with distributed computing as a hobby. In addition he enjoys collecting old Roman coins, particularly the "token" issues stamped from base metals, collecting old Japanese swords and restoring or building koshirae (fittings) for them, and collecting and shooting firearms. In addition he's a regular player in the the last massively multiplayer online game who's software development team he led, World War II Online, the host for which used one of the first commercial computing clusters instead of a single high end server, which he designed in 1998 and implemented starting in 1999, with the implementation finished by Marty Poulin, going public in June 2001.
The home page for this distributed computing massively multiplayer game can be found at
http://www.wwiionline.com/
The family home page can be found at
http://www.pbth.com/
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I participate in this project on the off chance that it may actually find something conclusive, although I admit the odds are long.
Other projects I support are Predictor and Rosetta, studies that analyze proteins or look for abnormal structures in proteins called Prions which I believe are the root cause of Multiple Sclerosis, the illness that caused my early retirement.
My only practical suggestion at this time is that as well as supporting a univeral binary format for the Macintosh, they also do a build of a 64bit Universal binary for the G5 series and Xeon series Macintosh CPU's, as currently they are held back by the use of 32 bit primitives.
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