Currently a product manager but a EE geek in education and heart. I work in the telecommunication industry and dabble in iPhone programming.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Not only is the volunteer distributed processing concept wicked cool, but ET life is wildly interesting. Combine that with joining a SETI team associated with my favorite game ever (Halo) and what could be a better way to spend my extra CPU cycles...
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.