Profile: Jim Dick

Personal background
I am origionally from West Virginia.
Date of Birth: July 1, 1949
Childhood: I grew up in the very small town of Piedmont, WV.
University: M.S. Statistics, West Virginia University - 1976
I worked as a Statistician/Computer Programmer for the State of West virginia from 1974 through 1980. I then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and took a job as a Systems Analyst for Standard Oil of California (Chevron). I retired from ChevronTexaco in November, 2003. I now live in Olympia, Washington.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home because it is statistically impossible for there not to be other intelligent life in our universe. I want to help find them and prove that we are not alone. One of the greatest changes in human history will come about when we discover that life. I want the SETI project to continue until we find a signal no matter how long it takes. I think a program to enlist the help of large corporations by running SETI@home or corporate version of the program on their idle PCs and servers during off peak hours would vastly increase the computing power being used to analyze the data. The PR value for the corporations should be valuable to them. They could even play both sides of the street (prove/disprove extraterrestrial life) if they were so inclined.
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