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| Personal background |
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Craig hails from the greater Boston, Massachusetts area, working as a technical writer for a software company that develops software for local government.
Other pursuits include:
- involvement in three projects that periodically measure the quality of the water in streams and lakes around Boston. These figures are used by watershed advocacy groups to determine immediate quality problems and long term trends.
- participation as a town event coordinator for Massachusetts Biodiversity Days, held each spring. This involves coordinating trips within the town that involve identifying and discussing the variety of plant and animal life in the area and the natural and human pressures that may change the biodiversity in that area.
- involvement in several professional and self help groups like Toastmasters, Freemasonry, Society for Technical Communication, and American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
When there is ANY more time left, other activities include: hiking, folding origami, photographing, playing SimCity3000, and others.
And one more thing... GO PATRIOTS!!!! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I was lucky to have parents that appreciated the natural sciences. So, I grew up learning about the world around me. We went to museums, walked in parks, went to zoos, and watched the stars. I also was blessed with good schools, where they tried to make us think about the world around us.
I also read a lot, especially books and magazines about science and science fiction. One of the biggest influences in literature was Isaac Asimov. I read both his science and science fiction works. His science books, especially "Astronomy," and "Extraterestrial Life," shaped my interest in stars and life outside our planet, and his science fiction works like "Nightfall," and the "Foundation" trilogy (now a few more books than three) shaped my imagination. Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series was also very influential. There were many others that I can't mention here in this space.
I am involved with this project, because I continue to be curious about the universe that I live in. I just can't believe that of all the "billions and billions" of stars and galaxies, we would be the only ones to be intelligent enough to behold it. The great question, though, is how close is the next intelligent life? Are we close enough to acknowledge one another, even communicate with one another? I want to find out, and this is a direct way of doing that. |
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