I am a 43 year old metallurgical engineer who changed careers to become a wedding photographer, web usability engineer, and part-time stay at home father. I love the new careers but like to stay active with the engineering part of my brain. The BOINC projects allow me to stay energized about science. I allocate all of my spare computing cycles to seti@home and einstein@home. The other projects are not nearly as interesting to me.
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.