Paul's Main Contact Page

Contact

Contact was conceived by Jim Funaro in 1979, and the first formal conference was held in 1983. Many more events have followed, also various offshoots. This is a semiofficial archive, intended to display photos, schedules, and other material from each of these events, plus relevant web links.


Contact is listed in Wikipedia.

Contact Conference

Jim Funaro's personal account:

Contact History


This is a scan of the original program (Contact I), from 1983 in Santa Cruz, California

1983 Program

Here's the official speaker's list.

1983 Speakers List

Paul Bohannan recorded his impressions of Contact I.

Bohannan


Here's the official poster from Contact II, held in Santa Cruz in May of 1984.

1984 Poster

These are scans of the program from Contact II. The GIFs include the original advertisments and everything.

1984 Program Pages

This is the official speaker's list.

1984 Speakers List


Program schedule from Contact III, held in San Jose, California.

1985 Program



There was a gap in 1986.

Scans of the program handout from Contact IV, held in Rancho Cordova, CA.

1987 Program Pages


Program handout from Contact V, in Rancho Cordova.

1988 Program Pages


Program schedule from Contact VI, held in Phoenix, Arizona.

1989 Program A

1989 Program B

Program schedule from Contact VII, held in Phoenix, Arizona.

1990 Program Pages

Program schedule from Contact VIII, held in Phoenix, Arizona.

1991 Program Pages



Material from Contact conferences III (1985); VI, VII, and VIII (1989-91); also XVI (1999) are sparse. Contributions are welcome.

Contact IX, held in Palo Alto, CA.

1992 Program Pages

Here are John Bray's SimSETI project records, also from Contact IX.

SimSETI

The year 1992 also featured a grant to fund Contact's COTI Jr. project, plus a science fact article in Analog magazine.

Analog & grants


Contact X, in 1993, held in Santa Clara, CA.

1993 Program Pages


Contact XI, in 1994, also in Santa Clara.

1994 Program Pages


Contact XII, in 1995, held in Milpitas, Ca.

1995 Program Pages


Contact XIII, in 1996, also in Milpitas, Ca.

1996 Program Pages


Scans from Contact XIV, in 1997, held in Sunnyvale, Ca.

1997 Program Pages


Program handout from Contact XV, back in in Santa Clara .

1998 Program Pages

Program schedule from Contact XVI, held in Phoenix, Arizona.

1999 Program Pages


Here are Bruce Damer's photos from Contact XVII, held in 2000.

Contact 17 photos


Here's a very special photo from Contact XVIII, held in 2001.

A conversation with Clarke


This is the basic program data from several conferences. There are no 'original' web pages going back to 1992, for obvious reasons. Many of these documents were first posted on the Cabrillo College server in 1998.

Contact 92 Contact 93 Contact 94
Contact 95 Contact 96 Contact 97
Contact 98 Contact 99  



Contributions of personal photographs and mementos are welcome. Obviously, they need to be scanned or otherwise in web-presentable form. (If needed, I can handle that part.) Paul Carlson may be reached via, cuebon /at/ aol /dot/ com and please make your subject line distinct.


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