| Personal background |
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| I earned my BS in computer science and MS in information systems from California State University, Fullerton. I was an avid user of SETI@Home for a while, starting back in 1999, and founding a Team for CSUF's Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) during my time as an undergrad. Then, after a few years' hiatus from SETI@Home, I recently started using BOINC to run it again on my home Linux server. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I think the BOINC project in general, which owes its existence to the original SETI@Home, is definitely worthwile. It was very pioneering in its time (note that it pre-dates all the current buzz about "grid computing" or "the cloud" by a decade) and it has grown to become a technological and cultural phenomenon. Even with Moore's Law and all of the other near-exponential growth in the power and capacity of computer hardware, there will never be sufficient computing power to meet the true demand for it, especially the aggregate demand of the entire human race. SETI@Home and BOINC have shown us how to solve large problems by divide and conquer, and my hat is off to you for it. |
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