Udo
Member since:
19 May 2005
Country:
Germany
BOINC ID:
82463
Background
I'm a 40 year old system administrator, responsible for SAP systems within a datacenter in Germany. My computer experience started in 1981 and includes working with different computers... C64, Atari/Amiga, IBM Mainfraime, Unix Systems and of course PCs.
Another hobby is astronomy. I've never been an observer, but I love reading about astrophysics and cosmology.
I'm currently not a member of the BABB, the web forum associated to the Bad Astronomy website (www.badastronomy.com) but I'm interested in fighting against the misinformation which is spread about astronomy.
Opinion
E@H combines two of my hobbies (see personal background).
And I am also fascinated about distributed computing. It's a great idea to spend unused CPU cycles to scientific work.
I personally think that SETI is a waste of time but when I heard of Einstein@Home I joined it immediately... and later on I also joined Orbit@Home (which is in an Alpha state currently).