I work as a Network Engineer in Hillsborough, NC. I heard about SETI@home in College (University of South Carolina) and tried it out for a while. When I got to my new job, I started using it again after I got a new computer.
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.