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| Personal background |
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I was born in England, but moved to Australia at a young age. Computers have always been a keen interest of mine, since my first Acorn Electron (BBC-Micro clone), through to Commodore Amiga's and now with PC's.
Since the completion of high-school have been working part/full-time with a local software company, and have recently completed my Bachelor of Computer Science.
I run SETI@home both on my home and work PC's - my linux beast at home goes through 4 work units in the time my work PC completes 1 :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The SETI@home project is very interesting from a distributed-computing point of view. I am overwhelmed by the sheer amount of computing power that now available to us mere humans. Without SETI@home, a very large percentage of this power would have been wasted.
It is also very interesting that the problem "Do extra-terrestrial lifeforms exist?" is intrinsically undecidable (i.e. assuming the universe is infinite, there is no way that we will ever know for sure that ETs exist until we find them - there is no way of knowing for certain that they don't exist).
Aside from that, I am very impressed with the SETI@home web site - the collection of statistics available is another great example of how special computing power is. |
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