Profile: elCharlie

Your personal background.
Hello. I am originally from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, but I currently live in Florida, USA. I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Information Systems. I work as a network engineer for the local government. My hobbies are computers, exercising, motorcycles, and beach sports. I also like to read books about psychology, philosophy and spirituality.

Computers have been my passion and hobby from the moment I first laid hands on a keyboard in 1981. The first computer I ever used was a Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with a 1MHz processor, 32KB of RAM, a green monochrome monitor, a cassette player/recorder (for storing programs and data in regular audio tapes), and a single sided floppy drive that no one (except the school teacher) was allowed to operate. How we've come a long way. I am writing this on a 2GHz computer with 1GB of RAM, 200GB hard drive and an LCD screen.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
BOINC is simply brilliant. To get millions of computers around the world to process data and integrate the results into a single data repository is a remarkable accomplishment. The scientists responsible for this should be rewarded.

I am not a physicist or mathematician, but any quest for knowledge is important to me. Good luck in finding the pulsars!
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