| Your personal background. |
Hi,
Well, I'm all sorts of things ... mostly human, though!
BSEE in 1965; Joined IBM same year in Dallas, Texas. Promoted to Instructor, teaching programming, in L.A. in 1969. Joined an IBM research group in Century City in LA in 1971 after completing several "special projects" in 1970.
IBM's IMS development group moved to Palo Alto, California late 1971 (Silicon Valley). Spent eight years working on IMS, two while living in England. Joined IBM's Advanced System Research group in 1979. Left IBM in 1983 to found a "startup" company with venture capital funding. Left California Network Systems in 1986 to found MicroNetix Consulting. Joined Amdahl in 1990 to develop their file server. Retired from the industry in 1995 and left "Silicon Valley" for the Sierra Nevada foothills in eastern California near Lake Tahoe.
Interest will always include software development and computers, but also includes astrophysics/cosmology, house handyman, good neighbor, and genealogy, which I've traced back to the late 1400's for our family.
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| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
1) I like helping out on scientific projects. I had worked on SETI for a long period of time, but somehow drifted away from that a year or so ago. I wish I knew more about each "assignment" that I was working on, though.
2) I like BOINC and Einstein@home so far, although I find BOINC operation, messages, status, etc., to be confusing. Sometimes BOINC "dries up" of work and no matter what I do, I can't seem to get any new work. Then, perhaps the next morning, somehow BOINC now gets more work ... somewhat unpredictable.
3) Make BOIC work better; tell us more about what each work unit is actually doing; Have a neat screensaver like SETI so that we can "see" something happen .. it gives us a nice sense of feedback that things are going well.
Thanks, Tom |
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