Yes. I think life exists. I have some grasp of the scale of the sky that needs to be searched and the bandwidth that can potentially contain that magic signal. And I'm a little overwhelmed by how small the entire SETI effort is compared to what still has to be done.
The exponential growth in home computing and computing power in general should hopefully make the processing phase faster in the coming years. I certainly hope someone finds that signal in my lifetime.
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.