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| Personal background |
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Greetings...
I'm Frank, 23 year-old undergraduate student at the University of Miami.
I'm currently enrolled in the school of business, with a double major in computer infomration systems (CIS) and accounting.
I've enjoyed computers & technology since I can remember back to having a TRS-80 when I was four years old. I've come a long way since then, and still enjoy studying computers at the college level... JAVA will save the world!
I guess you could say I'm a techno-freek.
Nonetheless, I've learned not to take a hobby and turn it into a job, so I'm heading towards University of Miami law school in 2004 for their joint J.D./M.B.A. program. I worked as a network admin for two months for a farily large Miami company, but abandoned the whole idea out of frustration/monotony and went back to college. I like computers, don't get me wrong, but I'm more of a businessman/lawyer than a programmer, and the former pays better. I want to work with computers, but in a less utilitarian manner; writing contracts instead of code. I'm so frustrated watching the current batch of politicians' botched attempts at writing and interpreting laws regarding the internet and computer technology. The entire incumbent political body knows so little about computers, yet they write laws which could change the very way we use them! (Yes, Al Gore we all know YOU invented the internet!) Thus, I hope to work in the field of internet law with a fundamental understanding of the nature of computers AND the law; a feat as yet unseen on capitol hill. As i told my career counselor when she asked whether I'd like to be a computer programmer or a lawyer, I want to be a computer-programming-lawyer! :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist? Hmm, if i had the answer to that, I'd know more than all the philosophers and religions to date; So i don't think I have the intellectual authority to give a simple answer to that question. However, if you consider that it is not truly known whether space "ends" or not, then you must also consider that if space is indeed infinite, then there is infinite opportunity for life to exist...
I do believe humans ought to transmit a "beacon" to be found, but I don't think it should be too specific in nature. We already emit enough radio signals to tell as much about or race as it is in my opinion (satellite TV, radio etc.) However, if we were to send a specific signal, it ought to somehow mathematically represent our position in the universe, anything else would be subjective and probably end up misinterpreted.
I run SETI@home because I am truly fascinated by the sheer power of distributed computing. My intel chips cost a lot of money to only be used 20% of the time, so I figured I might as well allow them to be used when I have no use for them. I don't see it as philanthropy so much, because I think by running SETI@home I'm paying my part to have one of life's most significant questions answered.
I think the SETI@home project is a pioneer in distributed computing. Beyond their reseach mission, the whole distributed computing system they've deployed is pure genius, and they did it a public level long before many of these others institutions. The whole idea of using the untapped resources of the internet for epic proportion mathematical calculation represents the true culmiation of the internet; not as a bunch of rag tag PCs exchaging web-pages and mp3s, but as one massive, evolving computer. I firmly believe that with such computational power, the "internet computer" has the power to answer many of life's questions such as "are we alone?". Trivial as it may sound, the simplest questions are often the most diificult to answer, but I think they will be in our generation! |
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