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Universe Today Reports on the Communicating Across the Cosmos Workshop
Since it was founded in 1984, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, has been a principal American venue for scientific efforts to discover evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. In mid November, the institute sponsored a conference, “Communicating across the Cosmos”, on the problems of devising and understanding messages from other worlds. The conference drew 17 speakers from numerous disciplines, including linguistics,…
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SETI Workshop: How Can We Make Ourselves Understood by Other Civilizations in the Galaxy?
SETI Institute webpages devoted to the workshop Communicating Across the Cosmos is now up and running. Go to How Can We Make Ourselves Understood by Other Civilizations in the Galaxy? to read the abstracts, biographies, and media info and even watch the talks.
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UK SETI Research Network
The UK SETI Research Network is a group of UK academics at a number of institutions who are active in the field of the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. Its purpose is to promote academic SETI activity in the UK. To find out more about the research network members and the present activities of the UKSRN…
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NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Newsletter: Second Quarter 2013
The NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Notes & News published in 2013, Volume 30, Number 2. The Sound of Space workshop report ‘The Sonic Dimension of Outer Space, 1940–1980’ including a note about my presentation is available from the News & Notes: the NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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NASA Astrobiology Conference 2012: Abstract and Poster
The poster abstract ‘The Detection of Extraterrestrial Life – Are We Ready?’ for AbSciCon – NASA Astrobiology Science Conference 2012: Exploring Life: Past and Present, Near and Far is available online. Abstract Body: The paper offers a novel perspective on the scientific search for life beyond Earth, based on the ‘outsiders’ point of view approach that anthropology…
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Report to the IAA on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO
Report to the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO in Paris was written by Dr. Claudio Maccone IAA (Director for Scientific Space Exploration and Chair, IAA SETI Permanent Committee); the report is now available to download (PDF).