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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS for CONTACT XIII/96


Thursday 7 March

 

18:30-19:00 Welcome -- Jim Funaro

 

20:00-22:00 Bateson Session #1: "First Contact Protocol Project - Objectives"

Don Scott, Moderator

Discussants: Al Harrison, Joel Hagen, Seth Shostak, Jim Funaro,

Bob Tyzzer, Allen Tough, Doug Raybeck and Gerald Nordley

 

20:00-??? Hospitality

 

Fri 8 March

 

09:30-10:00 Welcome & Introductions -Jim Funaro

 

10:00-12:00 Symposium I: NASA Track: Ecology of Martian Commerce

Moderators: Michael Sims and Chris McKay

 

13:00-14:50 Symposium II: The Contact Consortium 96

 

1) "Contact Made (in Digital Space)"

Bruce Damer (Contact Consortium)

Bonnie Nardi (Apple Computer)

Maclen Marvit (Worlds Inc.)

Jim Funaro (Contact Consortium)

 

2) "Building Cyberspace Worlds with Avatars and Interaction"

Todd Goldenbaum (Construct)

James Walthorp (Construct)

Mark Meadows (Construct)

 

15:00-16:20 Bateson Session #2 - "First Contact Protocol Project - Models"

Don Scott, Moderator

Discussants: Al Harrison, Joel Hagen, Seth Shostak, Jim Funaro,

Bob Tyzzer, Allen Tough, Doug Raybeck and Gerald Nordley

 

16:30-17:50 Symposium III: "SolSys Reports from Participants"

Terrel Hoffman -- Moderator

Steven Miller -- SolSys Admin

John Spenser -- Written Report

Scott Sawyer -- SolSys Admin

Molly McLaughlin -- CINNews

Aussie -- Discussant

 

20:00-22:00 Alleged Alien Autopsy -- Film and Critique

Dick Haines

 

22:00-??? Hospitality

 

Sat 9 March

 

08:30-09:30 Hospitality

 

09:00-10:20 Symposium IV-A: Xenoplanetology/ Xenobiology/ Xenoecology

Douglas Raybeck - Weightlessness, Stress, and Calcium Deficiency

Al Harrison - "Sociological" Explanations of the Absence of Evidence

Charles Ostman - The Internet as Organism

 

10:30-12:00 Symposium IV-B: Xenoplanetology/ Xenobiology/ Xenoecology

Steve Gillett - Earthlike Planets Could Miss Having Technical Intelligence

Gerald Nordley - Background World-Building for the Planet Trimus

Poul Anderson- The Great Silence

 

13:00-14:50 Symposium V: "Four Positive Glimpses of a Far Distant Future"

Chair: Allen Tough

Chris Jones

Reed Riner

Seth Shostak

 

15:00-16:20 Bateson Session #3 - "First Contact Protocol Project - Results"

Don Scott Moderator

Discussants: Al Harrison, Joel Hagen, Seth Shostak, Jim Funaro,

Bob Tyzzer, Allen Tough, Doug Raybeck and Gerald Nordley

 

16:30-17:50 Symposium VI: "Education for the Future"

Donald Scott - "An alternate approach: NASA's Spacemobile Program"

Joel Hagen - "A Distance Learning Course"

 

19:00-22:00 BANQUET and KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Jerry Pournelle

 

22:00-??? Hospitality

 

Sun 10 March

 

10:00-12:00 Thematic Round Tables in Breakfast Room:

First Contact Protocol Project

Xenobiology/Xenoecology

The Alien Dig

 

12:00-14:30 Cultures of the Imagination: Contact

 Contact 99

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