Interview with SETI@home Director David Anderson

CowboyRobot writes "ACM's Queue magazine interviews David P. Anderson, a research scientist at the U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, who directs the SETI@home and BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) projects. SETI@home uses hundreds of thousands of home computers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. FTA: "volunteer computing arose because projects such as SETI@home needed $100 million worth of computing power but didn't have the money. But there's no free lunch--a project must give participants something in return for their computer time.""

Comments

Re:New client

[bhtooefr]

Except for a few UI kludges, you should see the Find-a-Drug client.

Blows the F@H client away on features, and it's an equally good cause, with (AFAICT) better project administration than F@H.

Re:More Ambitious Project: STI

[andrewscraig]

So to the over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi people who have been murdered since the invasion, you are saying to them "no life is better than life under Saddam?"

Also the US is not a democracy, it is a republic. Each state can choose it's own form of government, and the president is chosen by a vote of the states, not the people.