I am a fairly ordinary 40-something guy that loves computers and loves being able to use their idle time to do something useful. I also love being a part of a great team - BOINC@Australia.
I have a wife that thinks I am a geek, but kids that think I am cool. Clever kids those ...
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI because the universe is a big place, and it will take a very long time to look everywhere for intelligent life - it is hard enough to find it on Earth!
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.