Currently Information Systems Manager for a medium sized further education college in the UK
Over 30 years experience in IT ranging from mainframes, minis and PCs across all sorts of industries
Also a partner in a small computer consultancy firm which my wife runs
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run seti to help in the possibility that we may be able to find proof that extraterrestrial life exists.
I believe that there is no doubt that it is out there but probably so distant that any conversation will be impossible. Not just the distances involved but the technology that we are using to communicate. (How can it not be there considering the size of the universe - or even just our galaxy, and what will eventually prove to be the many different variant forms in which life can exist.)
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.