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| Personal background |
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I retired from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I helped develop an automated sheet metal bending machine in our Rapid Manufacturing Lab. I have also worked on image understanding projects with aerial photos and with medical images. I wrote an Emacs-like command line editor for the Unix shell that was released on the Next machine. I mostly work in C++ but I like Python and Smalltalk also.
I enjoy reading, running, movies, theater, and eating out. I'm a big fan of the Apple Macintosh. I'm a vegetarian and an atheist. I went to grad school in the Philosophy department at the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergrad I majored in math, physics and philosophy.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI@home, Einstein@home, and Folding@home to give my computer something to do while I'm away at work. I think the probability of finding a signal from life elsewhere is so low as not to justify the search.
Considering how we treat other life forms that we consider inferior to ourselves (including our fellow humans), I'm dubious of the value of transmitting a signal for others to find. If they behave as we do, they will enslave us or destroy us.
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