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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
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