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| Personal background |
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I am a physicist and physics teacher from Kansas. I joined SETI@home in 1999 when I was 22, and have contribted off and on since then. When I started I ran the screensaver on my 1994-era Packard Bell Legend 20 CD, but with a few upgrades including 20 megs of ram (up from the 4 megs it came with), and a Cyrix 5x86-133 overdrive processor. As the requirements grew, I couldn't use my older computers, but would contribute as I could.
My hobbies include electronics, guitar, programming, history, reading, and walking/hiking. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I first ran SETI@home because I loved the idea of contributing to a worldwide research project, and who wouldn't want to be involved with a monumental discovery like alien signals? In the 21 years since I started contributing, we haven't received the signal we hoped for (as far as we know) but we have moved the project forward with impressive speed. When it started, I had only just learned about Beowulf clusters, so the idea of a WAN based distributed computing platform was amazing. It's also inspired so many other distributed computing projects that are helping in many areas. |
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