CONTACT XIII
March 8-10, 1996 - Milpitas, CA

Thursday
Bateson Project 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

Friday
Symposium I: NASA Track: Ecology of Martian Commerce
Michael Sims and Chris McKay, Geoff Briggs & Larry Lemke

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)
Bateson Project 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

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
Alleged Alien Autopsy - Film and Critique
Dick Haines

Saturday
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

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
Symposium V: "Four Positive Glimpses of a Far Distant Future"
Chair: Allen Tough
Chris Jones
Reed Riner
Seth Shostak
Bateson Project 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

Symposium VI: "Education for the Future"
Donald Scott - "An alternate approach: NASA's Spacemobile Program"
Joel Hagen - "A Distance Learning Course"
Banquet and Keynote Address - Jerry Pournelle

Sunday
Thematic Round Tables
First Contact Protocol Project
Xenobiology/Xenoecology
The Alien Dig
Cultures of the Imagination - Contact!