Dr. Curtis Cooper is a professor at the Central Missouri State University. Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone found the 43rd Mersenne prime on their 700 PC cluster on December 15, 2005. The prime is 9,152,052 digits long and is the 9th Mersenne prime for the GIMPS project. (source) Central Missouri State University is a 4-year public institution offering a diverse range of academic concentrations. ... Dr. Steven Boone is a professor at the Central_Missouri_State_University. ... 43 is the natural number following 42 and preceding 44. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a prime power of two. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... Linux Cluster at Purdue University A computer cluster is a group of loosely coupled computers that work together closely so that in many respects it can be viewed as though it were a single computer. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a prime power of two. ... The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime 95 and MPrime, special open source software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. ...

He also has his own website.