Profile: Steve Tan

Personal background
I earn a living as a mainframe professional. I'm married with two kids - love my wife and my two small boys immensely. And I'm a generalist. I've always been interested in all manners of things like astronomy, paleontology, robotics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, hydroponics, and entrepreneurship among others. For sports I do running, cycling, swimming and football.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I've signed up for SETI@home back in 2000 when I first heard what it was all about. I thought the concept of a global distributed computing network was groundbreaking and awesome. It's an opportunity to see for the first time just how the immense power of the global community of computers can be harnessed to achieve a great cause. It was a revolutionary idea and I want to be part of it!

To me, it didn't really matter at the time if it's a search for ET or decoding the human genome or a cure for cancer - although I would have signed up for any of these worthwhile initiatives in a heartbeat.

So let's invite more people to signup and hookup more PCs into this computing network. This could be one way by which humanity can collectively achieve great endeavors.

Kudos to the Berkeley computing team, and keep those excellent ideas coming!
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