Profile: Marvin_Martian

Your personal background.

Who am I and where am I from: My real name is Don Barbee and I am originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma USA. now living in the Dallas, Texas USA area.

Age: To old to remember. (At the tender age of 10 circa the late 1950s I first played tic-tac-toe on a DoD computer. My first exposure to computers and computing.)

Occupation: Software engineer for a major Financial Institution. (I prefer process control systems but hey, you gots to make a living somehow.)

Hobbies: Astonomy, Storm Chasing, Anything computers, oh and extreme computer gaming. (Oblivion, Fear, Doom3, Half-Life and Half-Life 2)

Im proud to contribute to the advancement of science even if its only through excess cpu time on my computers.

Your opinions about Einstein@Home
Why do you run Einstein@Home? Because I can and because of my interest in Astronomy and Cosmology.

What are your views about the project? I think it would be great for this project to yeild simultaneous results along with gamma ray burst detections which could help identify the nature of the object(s) envolved.

Any suggestions? Nope
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

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