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| Personal background |
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Born in Torrance California in 1971. Robert Kay first got involved in computers in 1983 at the age of 12. He attributes his passion for computers to saving his life. At the age of 12 Robert contracted active diabetes in which his pancrease shut down for a week. At the time he did not have a computer but his mother, who worked for Hughes Aircraft at the time, was activley recycling the old fashioned computer program puch cards. His interest in trying to decipher these cards held his fascination while he recovered from the initial onset of his diabetes and got it under control.
At 14 Robert received his first computer, an antiquated 8086, that the family still owns, repleat with monitor. This system gave him hours of interest and entertainment as he poked out his first basic programs in basic. These programs mostly played with graphic screen saver type diplays of lines including small bits of wav files as well.
After struggling on his own to learn computers Robert attended New Mexico State University in Alamogordo New Mexico. After the concept of FTP was integrated into college systems Robert left school for a while seeing something larger on the horizon. As the internet became born he applied himself to learning everything he could about HTML. After managing a one man Web Design company for four years Robert returned to school at 29, attending Education America in Tempe Arizona. Having recently attained an A.A.S. in Internet Information Systems Robert has returned to school for an A.A.S. in Computer Information Systems before persuing a Bachelors in Information Technologies at Arizona State University. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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First of all I think it is a little to cocky to think we are the only intelligent life on the planet let alone in the universe and we should all look for signs of it everyday. Discovering another intelligent race, I believe, will accelerate our own scientific evolution as our scientists learn to think concepts out from a different direction.
I believe we should try and contact other life forms but in a cautious manner to attain a tentative first contact and evaluation of each other.
I run Seti At Home because I believe it is a good use of our computing resources, as opposed to searching for pornography, and this will prepare our population as a whole to embrace or defend against whatever "brothers" we may find out there or even next door.
Currently I am developing a system to improve Seti's search algorithm and also a Web interface to broadcast personal and group ranks on personal web sites from the Seti program. |
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