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| Personal background |
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| Life-long resident of Manhattan; now with a second home up in much less light-polluted Columbia County. A recovering science fiction addict (started with Heinlein and Asimov). VP of Traffic Sales Development for Tele Atlas, a global leader in digital mapping technology; my responsibilities include marketing of real-time automobile traffic information, tailored for wireless and telematics distribution. We collect traffic in partnership with Metro and Shadow Traffic, then create a database tied to our digital maps. Proud to be a Bronx Science Graduate (class of 1958). Oh, that's me on the piano! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I heard about SETI@home in the media (I think on NPR). I joined because I've always believed that, speaking strictly statistically, there is a strong probability that the circumstances which created life on Earth must be replicated (even in a different set of flavors) elsewhere. It's part of human nature to expand its grasp of the universe. Once we did it on foot, then by ship and airplane, now by spacecraft. SETI@home does it electronically; and I think the next step is to establish a beacon to signal our presence to those who might have a SETI@home project on some other world. In all voyages of discovery, there are risks, but I think that, on balance, contact with another species of intelligent life would be beneficial to both. Is it likely? I want to think so, but I have to admit that the chances are remote that it will happen in my lifetime. |
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