I'm a retired librarian from Philadelphia. I'm also retired from the USAF. I've been in SETI at home for some time but had to rejoin recently because my old email address was invalid as the company faded. I think this is a great project and I'm happy to be part of it.
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.