SCHEDULE of EVENTS for CONTACT X/93

FRIDAY · 2/26

9:30-10:00 Welcome and Introductions - Jim Funaro

10:00-11:00 Symposium 1: Origin of Life and Why It's Important to Humans

Chris McKay - Why and how, the search for origins in space.

Panel: Lemke, Sims, McKay, Landis and Fogg

10:00-Noon Workshop 1: Worldbuilding - Stephen Gillett

11:00-Noon Symposium 2: The Role of Robotics in Human Exploration

Michael Sims - Humans and Machines or "we don't serve 'droids here"

Panel: Lemke, Sims, McKay, Landis and Fogg

1:00-2:00 Symposium 3: The Explorer as Hero

Larry Lemke - The Hero's Journey: Space Exploration as Myth.

Panel: Lemke, Sims, McKay, Landis and Fogg

1:00-2:30 Workshop 2: Education for the Future: Our Resources, Your Needs

Chair: Reed Riner

2:00-3:00 Symposium 4: Possible New Worlds for Human Exploration

Martyn Fogg The Ecosphere: On the Prevalence of Habitable Planets

Panel: Lemke, Sims, McKay, Landis and Fogg

2:30-4:00 Workshop 1: Worldbuilding - Stephen Gillett

3:00-400 Symposium 5: Exploration & the Search for ET Intelligence

Geoff Landis - The Fermi Question: Approach Based on Percolation Theory

Panel: Lemke, Sims, McKay, Landis and Fogg

4:00-5:30 Reports: Bateson Project News and COTI Updates

7:00-8:30 Welcome Party - No Host Bar

8:30-9:30 Workshop 3: Robot Scavenger Hunt

Jim Funaro, Joel Hagen, Butler Hine & Michael Sims

SATURDAY · 2/27

9:00-9:30 Report: 1st Contact Simulation in Japan - Masamichi Osako

9:30-10:30 Symposium 6: On SETI: Extraterrestrials and Communication

Poul Anderson - Communication Problems in SETI

Al Harrison - Can We Communicate with Intelligent ETs in Outer Space?

10:00-Noon Workshop 2: Education for the Future: SolSys Demo:

Martians and L-5ers - Reed Riner

10:30-Noon Symposium 7: On SETI: Extraterrestials and Humans

Seth Shostak - The "I" in SETI: What Type of Intelligence Might We Find?

Lyn Miles - Are ETs Persons?

Jim Funaro - Gods or Devils from Space? The Impact of a SETI Message

1:00-2:30 Symposium 8: Realities, Virtual and/or Real

Carol Stoker - Telepresence for Mars: Advanced Grokking in Antarctica

Allucquere "Sandy" Stone - Virtual Erotics and the Future of Telepresence

Barbara Joans - Going Native: Becoming Your Field

1:00-2:30 Workshop 1: Worldbuilding - Stephen Gillett

2:30-4:00 Symposium 9: The Great Journey

Don Scott - Rushing toward Contact: An Educator's Thoughts

Dennis Rohatyn - Begging the Quest: Why Do We Want to Go to Space?

Doug Raybeck - Bossed in Space: Leadership Isolation and Group Dynamics

2:30-4:00 Workshop 2: Education for the Future: Now Where Do We Go?

Chair - Reed Riner

4:00-5:30 Reports: Bateson Project News and COTI Updates

7:00-8:30 Banquet & Keynote Address - Paul Bohannan - Virtual Family

8:30-9:30 St. $ilicon - the world's first Hi-Tech Comedian (Jeffrey Armstrong)

SUNDAY · 2/28

10:00-Noon Bateson Projects Final Session: SUMMARY

1:00-3:00 Cultures of the Imagination Final Session: CONTACT

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