Is there intelligent life in the universe? Here on earth, despite the blunders of humanity, many of us think we qualify, and figure if our species can do it, some other species on some other planet must have done it too. But how do you confirm the existence of intelligent life elsewhere when even the closest star, Alpha Centauri, is about 4.3 light years away? Based at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, the SETI@home project is trying to answer that question. SETI stands for the "Search for Intelligent Life, and SETI@home is one of a number of searches for extraterrestrial life.
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Bart Eisenberg's articles on the trends and technologies of the American computer industry have appeared in Gijutsu-Hyoron publications since the late 1980s. He has covered and consulted for both startups and the major corporations that make up the Silicon Valley. A native of Los Angeles and a self-confessed gadget freak, he lives with his wife Susan in Marin County, north of San Francisco. When not there, he can sometimes be found hiking with a GPS in the Sierra, traveling in India, driving his Toyota subcompact down the California coast, or on the streets of New York and Tokyo.
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1980年代後半より，『Software Design』や『Web Site Expert』などの雑誌に，アメリカのコンピュータ業界のトレンドと技術に関するレポートを執筆しています。シリコンバレーで，スタートアップ企業から大企業まで幅広い分野でコンサルタントを務めました。
ロサンゼルス生まれで，自称ガジェットフリークです．現在，妻のSusanとともに，サンフランシスコ北部のMarin County在住。また，SierraのGPSを携えてハイキングしたり，インドを旅したり，カリフォルニア海岸をドライブしたり，NYや東京の街中を歩いたりしています。