I'm running Seti@home at both the office and at home. I am a 47 year old tri-national (British/French/Swiss) engineer and have been fascinated by PCs since they became a mass consumer product about 12 years ago.
Because of the international environment in which I work, I see the benefits of the Internet, particularly in newly industrializing countries. It allows them to leap-frog several levels of technology.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have to confess that my interest in running SETI@home is the distributed computing exercise. I'm rather sceptical about the possibility of finding extraterrestial life and even more of the chances of the "LGM"s using the piece of electromagnetic spectrum we are playing around with to communicate. I however remain open to being convinced the other way.
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.
