I graduated from Appalachian State University in 1987 with a major in Computer Science and minors in math and physics. My physics concentration was in Astronomy and have been interested in outer space since I was a kid.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think the SETI@home project has proven an inspiring method to analyze data with CPU cycles that would otherwise be wasted.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.