Profile: Skip Lawson

Your personal background.
Instead of computers, I crunch my data sets on a large wooden abacus. It takes just a bit longer, but they continue to credit me for work done so I must be doing something right.



I enjoy banging rocks together and the occasional mammoth hunt. I don't generaly socialize with my fellow cave dwellers. The others in the cave are afraid of my counting apparatus and are constantly shaking bones and sticks at it. Og is the worst, he fears change. I can't really take offense as he tends to shake his stick at a good number of things. I think the others just bow to the peer pressure so Og wont shake his stick at THEM.



I am bothered that Og continuously tells (grunts at) me that it wasn't the cavemen who invented the abacus. He says that it was (will) in fact be the Chinese. Now where did old Stick Shaker learn that...



Your opinions about Einstein@Home
Why do I run Einstein@Home?



The guys from Einstein@Home showed up at my castle gate and asked if I would join them on a quest for the "Holy Pulsar". I told them I've already got one. They wanted to come in and see it but I said "no". So they built this big wooden rabbit...



Ok, that may not have happened. (The lawyers say I can't comment one way or the other)



I run E@H because I can. I think that the beauty of the Universe is in the details. There has to be so much more than what we have observed. I would like to think that when the big break through comes, I will be able to step up and say that my little wooden abacus (see my background) helped make the transporter and warp drive possible.

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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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