I'm a retired sofware engineer who spent 13 years working on the Space Shuttle onboard flight software in California and Texas. I was on the program during the launch of several high profile payloads including the Hubble Space Telescope.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I can't think of anything more challenging and interesting than trying to comprehend the workings of this fantastic universe, and the search for ET is certainly a worthy part of that effort.
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.