Profile: Mike Knewtson

Personal background
I am a Senior Software Developer at Schlumberger. I have a Masters in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Physics from MIT. I first found SETI@home several years ago when I woke up one night with a "brilliant" idea: "Harness the power of the idle time on desktops around the world to make the worlds biggest supercomputer!" I spent some time looking at web sites and discovered www.distributed.net was already doing it. I started monitoring the net for other projects like this and started running SETI@home as soon as I discovered it. I am currently running the text version of SETI@home (with SETI spy) to monitor progress on 4 Windows machines: Two Windows 2000 servers (one a dual processor machine), a Windows 2000 Pro machine and a Windows NT 4 machine.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it is almost certain that extraterrestrial life exists. The vastness of space and the number of planets that must exist with the conditions for life makes it overwhelmingly probable. However, the vastness of space, communication methods, bandwidth, etc. also make it pretty unlikely we will discover evidence of extraterrestrial life soon. But if we don't look, we'll never find it. I'm hoping we get lucky soon.
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