| Personal background |
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| My name is Milan Mijatovic and I work as a Statistical Analyst. I live in New York City with my pet African Grey named Jambo and my girlfriend who frequently comes over my apartment. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I began running SETI@home while I was still in college. I used to work in the computer labs at school and I noticed that one lab had all the computers running SETI@home with the familiar screen saver turned on. Seeing that got me interested in finding out more about the project. I began running it on my own computer in my dorm room. I even went and switched users on the computers running it in the labs so I could earn credit instead of the administrator. I don't know if that would be considered unethical or not but I was pretty happy to see all the credits flooding in from dozens of computers.
When I began to understand what SETI@home was trying to accomplish I thought that it was the coolest thing. The ultimate goal of trying to find extraterrestrial life seemed like a very noble cause, especially to a sconce fiction fan. And being part of a distributed computing project sounded very high tech and futuristic to me. I began to wonder if computing in general would move in this direction. Being able to squeeze every drop of processing power from my CPU was something I thought was a good thing. If your computer is sitting idle, which mine often did, I feel there is a social responsibility to put those wasted processor cycles to some good use.
After working in a corporate environment I observed the tremendous amount of wasted computing power. Most people don’t really need their computers to do much more than run office applications, email, web browsing, and maybe instant messaging. If all the computers in a company ran SETI@home or any distributed project there would be a huge amount of processing power put to good use. |
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