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I am a 49 year old USA ex-pat living in Australia. I have resided here for the last 12 years and started with the SETI project back in its infancy around 1999. I have been interested in technology for over 30 years and am currently the Director of Technology for Infomedia Ltd here in Australia. Prior to that, I was with IBM as the Programme Executive, managing one of 3 contracts for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. My team and I delivered the non-games technology, (ie Athletes Village, Media Village, Logistics, Torch Relay van etc ) for SOCOG in 48 venues throughout Australia. I have worked with Boeing, Digital (17 years), Unisys and a large Telecom company, Optus Communications, Optus Vision again delivering technology and capabilities to the masses.
My interests include Skydiving (20 years and around 6,500 jumps), Sailing, Scuba and a general like of the outdoors. I never seem to have enough time to engage in all that I'd like to do.
I have been published in various ariticles regarding the convergence of Data and Voice with an emphasis on Voice Over IP (VOIP). I will also be speaking in Hong Kong in December of 2003 regarding managing global projects in a global environment to the PMI membership in the 'Far East', China, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan etc. I am a certified Project Management Professional with PMI (Project Management Institute) with over 12,000 hours of large scale project management experience. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Being involved in technology and especially the sciences and math, I find it extremely probable that we, here on our little ball of dirt, are not the only accident of intelligent life to have occurred over the millenia. To refer to an old thought provoking idea that "If a tree fell in the forest and no one was there to hear it, Was a sound actually made? If so how can you prove it??" Well, if we don't listen, we'll never hear and we'll never be able to prove that a sound occurred. So it goes with SETI. We need to listen, even if we are not sure what the sound is going to be. If we are persistant, someday, the proverbial tree WILL fall and we will be there to hear it. This is why I contribute several computers to the excercise....to be an ear for the SETI team to discern if what I heard is really a 'Sound'..ie Inteligent Life. I believe in the project and have for many years. I also believe in the basis of SETI..that is distributed computing and the huge capabilities it can bring to humankind.
To the question of what should we transmit....we already have been for almost 100 years. We should continue to transmit what is the various nuances of our human existance, be it radio talk shows, TV, scientific information etc. What I mean here is that we should not pretend to be something that we aren't, rather we should protray what we are and where we are in the evolutionary cycle. It is a piece of the puzzle that will fit somewhere, even if we don't know where.
I think the SETI project's technology should also be looked at as to what else this form of distributed computing can do for humankind. Calculate the cure for the common cold, disease, poverty etc. There are many needy earthly problems that need the combined computing power that the SETI technology brings to the human race. Find another equally beneficial purpose for problems here on earth but continue to listen outside. |
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