Paul D. Buck
Member since:
17 January 2005
Country:
United States
BOINC ID:
2081
Background
Born in Roechester, NY
Lived in:
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* Rochester, NY (~4 years)
* Middleton, OH (~4 years)
* Detroit, MI (~4 years)
* Cottage Grove, MN (~8 years)
Joined the U.S. Navy where I really started to move around...
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* Boot Camp: Orlando, Florida
* Class "A" and "AFTA-C": Memphis, TN
* Class "C" schools: Lemoore, CA
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* First Command: VA-93 (A-7A/B), Vietnam Cruise 1972 & Forward deployed on USS Midway
* Second Command: "Ships Company" AIMD, NAS North Island, CA
* Third Command: VS-21 (S-3A), Deployment on USS Constellation & USS Kitty Hawk
* Fourth Command: NAMTRADET NAS Miramar; San Diego, CA (Instructor Duty)
* Fifth Command: Ships company USS Kitty Hawk (2 deployments)
All in all sea time was 7 years, one month, 21 days, not that we counted them or anything.
BS Computer Science, National University, Summa Cum Laude
MS Software Engineering, National University
5 Years Federal Civil Service working on DSP and OTH-B Radar
5 years SAIC, what a waste ...
Currently, occupied full time with my disability and writing Owner's Manuals (that very few people read) for the BOINC Powered Projects. I actually have quite a bit of content and you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY should come and read it ...
Opinion
Like the rest of the BOINC Powered Projects, I am excited about the ability of the individual to contribute directly to science.
One of the aspects of modern life has been a slow steady decline of interest in science and technology, with BOINC we can now see that the individual can have a direct and personal contact with science experiments and the process of how research is performed.
I was introduced to my first Distributed Programing project, SETI@Home, by a person that was doing SETI@Home on their computer. It was such a neat thing.
I tried many of the other projects that were alive at that point but none of them seemed reliable and required much more attention to keep operational.
Now I have the opportunity to be involved in many science projects, including some that are of high interest to me because they are based on the physics of our universe. Of less interest are the Biological science projects, and, sadly enough, SETI@Home. I still have a warm spot in my heart for SETI@Home, but, I am more interested in the other research projects …
Statistics
Projects
| Name | Avg credit | Total credit |
|---|---|---|
| SETI@home | 0 | 1.16M |
| Rosetta@home | 0 | 1.81M |
| NFS@Home | 0 | 541k |
| PrimeGrid | 0 | 10.5M |
| Pirates@Home | 0 | 4,828 |
| SETI@home Beta | 0 | 94.4k |
| RALPH@Home | 0 | 33.3k |
| WEP-M+2 | 0 | 189k |
| Gerasim@Home | 0 | 562 |
| Cosmology@Home | 0 | 1.24M |
| Enigma@Home | 0 | 359k |
| yoyo@home | 0 | 442k |
| MilkyWay@home | 0 | 162M |
| Quake Catcher Network | 0 | 143k |
| AlmereGrid Boinc Grid | 0 | 11.3k |
| WUProp@Home | 0 | 94.1k |
| GPUGRID | 0 | 37.3M |
| RNA World | 0 | 109k |