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

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