| Personal background |
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My name is Brian Bisaillon, I am 25 years old and I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I work for the Government of Ontario for the Ministry of Government Services as a Technical Standards Coordinator. I engage upon many technical pursuits related to Information Technology including but not limited to:
- Asynchronous Flash/JavaScript and XML
- Authentication and Authorization Systems
- Cluster and Grid Computing/Services
- Collaboration and Open Source Software
- Content Management Systems
- Cross-Platform Software Development
- Database Management Systems
- e-Government and Enterprise Portals
- Records/Document Management Systems
- Operating Systems and Programming Languages
- Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Technical Standards and Specifications
- etc...
Despite all of my techniness, I am quite a sociable person. I enjoy baseball, bowling, gaming, golfing, movies, music, playing guitar, skiing and swimming. I consider myself as a strong person despite the hardships of life such as dealing with Ulcerative Colitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, and the fact that I am on a long waiting list for a liver transplant. I hope to leave my mark upon the world because time as we all know is precious. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I run SETI@home because I believe it is primitive for us as a human race to think that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. As a matter of fact, I believe the human race is primitive in a lot of ways. We still have separations of countries, individual governments, money systems and other inhibitors that limit our ability to think and work together collectively for the benefit of everyone on our planet. Furthermore, we still have homeless and poor people on the streets, some of which I may add probably have something of real potential benefit to offer to society. Anyway, my point is that it takes a dramatic event to change the way humans think and interoperate. For instance, what would people do with money if our environment could no longer sustain itself? Survival would be priority #1. What would people do if they discovered intelligent beings outside of our own planet that were not bound by our rules?
2. My view about the project is that SETI@home is moving along quite nicely. I have just discovered the new web site design and BOINC manager. Neat stuff!
3. My suggestion for SETI@home is having a way for people like me to migrate non-existent e-mail accounts that have been shut down by their administrators without giving notice to their customers. For instance, my old account at bbisaillon@pmail.net was shut down without notice and I can no longer retrieve my password to enable the aforementioned migration to occur. Therefore, I have this stale account sitting on SETI@home with 616 hours and 18 minutes of CPU time that I wish could be added to my current account. |
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