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| Personal background |
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| I'm 37 and work as a technology teacher and music producer. After an 11 year career of database development and web application development, I turned to education and have been teaching various programs at ITT Technical Institute in Arnold, MO, since 2001. I've been a SETIatHome participant since 1999. I am also an electropop recording artist and am working on my fifth album, Your Mileage May Vary, which should be out in December or January. Visit my web site at http://davidv.purplenote.com. I also host two Internet radio shows -- Escape From Noise (vocal electronica) and Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin, on Cygnus Radio at http://www.cygnusradio.com. I'm originally from Festus, MO, and I've lived in Peoria, IL; DeLand, FL; and Portland, OR. Me, my wife Ann, and my two children Eric (5) and Maggie (20 mos.) have lived outside St. Louis, MO since 2000. You may e-mail me at porphyrous@yahoo.com. Please donate to The National Alliance for Autism Research so we can find an effective treatment for this mysterious developmental disorder. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETIatHome because I've always had an interest in the topic. I watched the original run of Cosmos on PBS in 1980 and I bought it on VHS, and then DVD, as soon as they were available. I'm a past member of the Planetary Society, who founded The SETI Project. I've participated in SETIatHome since 1999.
I think the project is a perfect application of distributed computing and I cite it as an example in many of my lectures to my students. I hope to see the project continue until we find what we're looking for.
My suggestions: Do some serious usability testing on the BOINC software, because the original SETIatHome program was a model of simplicity, while even my 15 years of professional computer experience did not allow me to get BOINC working in the first day of use. It appears to me that it was written by academic techies and tested on an intranet LAN, which would explain most, if not all, of the difficulties I've encountered, which means that the majority of classic SETIatHome users will have no chance of getting this software working.
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