I am a mathematics teacher in Vancouver, Canada. I found out about SETI@Home from an article on distributed computing. It sounded like fun to take part. You can take a look at my web page to find out more about 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.