Self taught computer "mom". Work in health care by day, play on my computer on time off work. Have fixed and built my own computers since 1997. Not an expert by any stretch of the imagination.
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.