I'm a 44 year old engineer in the Aerospace Industry. I've been messing around with my computer a lot lately trying to get it to be more stable, etc. and stumbled across the Seti@home software on March 3, 2002. I'm enjoying putting my DSL connection and computer to use on a worthwhile project (Lord knows, my CPU used to be pretty bored most of the time).
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.