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| Personal background |
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Bob's career in Information Systems spaned 30 years in manufacturing (tire and major home appliance) and mining companies. He was a Data Base Administrator before it was something that was ever thought about as a career (1972... yes, there were computers then). He worked as a technical systems programmer and eventually managed all the technical aspects of computing at his company (Mainframe, Unix servers, Novell Servers, MS Servers, Networks, Data Center Facility, and the internet). He became a project manager on the largest Information Systems project in the company's history and then became director of Applications Development.
In 2001, he started an internet based antique business and a small publishing company to make the commute to work a short walk to the in home office versus 30 minutes of terror in City traffic each way. He consults to the Information Systems industry only if it is a fun gig. Expertise is in IS Organization, Project Management, Business Processes, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Plant Maintenance, and Facilities Management.
He published his first book called Journal of War in March 2002 about a Civil War Captain from the Boston area based on 8 volumes of diaries and other period documents. Available via email.
He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi computing group for SETI and is Ohio Kappa (Kent State University)1971 pin number 21. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Of course there is extraterrestrial life. How can we believe that we are the only ones??? We just are not far enough along in our development to a)recognize it, b) go find it, or c) admit that we have found it. (My bets are on "c" by the way.) I also believe that we might be the ETs and have lost track of that over time. Remember all the cool stuff the Egyptians / Greeks / Romans / etc did and everybody forgot about during the dark ages and other dismal periods in human history.
A beacon was sent multiple times over history. Atomic Testing, a signal or two on purpose, and of course all our radio / TV / other broadcasts beginning with the first wireless transmitters in the early 1900s. I believe that everything up to this point has been pretty crude so far. We'll figure something out someday that may make sense to transmit in a transmission form that will get there in a reasonable amount of time. |
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