I am a recent graduate of the University of Maryland with a BS degree in Computer Science. I hobbies include photography, tennis and juggling.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't really know if extraterrestrial life exists. But I do have reasons to believe that extraterrestrial life may exist in our vast universe.
We've been unintensionally sending radio waves into space for the past 100 years.
I ran SETI@Home so I can have an excuse to run my computer all day and all night. No, just kidding. SETI@Home is the first distributed computing project I have ever participated in. I like science and I like computers. It's a no brainer!
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.