CONTACT 2008 Schedule of Events


nasa ames conference center

Friday - NASA Ames Conference Center

8:30: Continental Breakfast

9:00: Welcome: Jim Funaro

9:15: Ames Welcome

9:30: William J. Clancey "Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers"

10:00: Michael Sims "Autonomy in Robotic Spaceflight Missions: Examples from MER"

10:30: Carol Stoker “The Phoenix mission: Visiting the most habitable region on Mars”

11:00: Chris McKay "Mars Exploration: from Phoenix to Human exploration"

11:30: audience Q&A

12:00: LUNCH

1:30: Bruce Damer “Visualizing the Future of Exploration and Life in Space & Cyberspace”

2:00: Penny Boston ”The Robot-Human Continuum: Concepts & Applications For Space Exploration & Consequences for Humanity”

2:30: Michael Bolte “The Next 30 Years of Astronomy"

3:00: Doug Raybeck "Addressing the Difficulties of Long-Term Space Flight"

3:30: “Charting the 21st Century” (90 min special session)
Reed Riner - “Timelines Past and Present; How We Represent Experience to Ourselves"
Peter von Stackelberg - "Footprints of the Future: Using Timelines In Futures Studies"
Bruce Cordell - "Timelines as Solutions to the Differential Equations of the Global System"
Christopher Burr Jones - Discussant

5:00: Closing Remarks

5:30: Artshow & Reception

7:00: CONFERENCE CENTER CLOSES


Saturday - NASA Ames Conference Center

8:30: Continental Breakfast

9:00: Jim Funaro "Some Thoughts on the Origins and Future of Morality"

9:30: Philip Aaberg “Would Aliens Like Bach?”

10:00: Don Scott "The Contemplative Cowboy; or, In Praise of Independent Scholars"

10:30: Howard Heard "To Reach Out and Touch Time: Cinema and Sensory Experience"

11:00: Jeroen Lapre "Making Science Compelling"

11:30: Allucquere Rosanne Stone “That's What Those Robots Were Doing In The Park -- I Thought They Were Repairing Each Other”

12:00: LUNCH

1:30: Ted Everts “Meet Homo commoditas: Modifying and Commodifyng Genus Homo sapiens in a Capitalist World-Economy"

2:00: Seth Shostak "Why Isn't Alien Presence Obvious?"

2:30: "Education For the Future" (90 minute special session)
David Tamori - "Ten Years of History and Progress of COTI Hi"
Dennis L. Albers - “Physical Science Course In Interstellar Travel”
Matt Castleberry - “Why Starships Won't Use Rocket Propulsion"
Wim Laws - “Artificial Gravity During Starship Voyages”

4:00: Melanie Swan "Data Visualization in Second Life"

4:30: COTI HI Report (Tamori, Zuckerman, students)

5:30: Appetizers

6:00: Concert: Phil Aaberg

6:45: Banquet

8:00: Keynote Speaker: Carlo Sequin

10:00: CONFERENCE CENTER CLOSES


Sunday - NASA Ames Conference Center

8:30: Continental Breakfast

10:00: Al Harrison "Professionals, Passengers, and Settlers:  New Communities in Space."

10:30: "Astrosociology and 21st Century Space Exploration" (60 minute special session)
Marilyn Dudley-Flores (moderator)
Jim Pass
Al Harrison
Seth Shostak
Thomas Gangale
Margaret Race

12:00: LUNCH

1:00: COTI HI Contact

2:30: Closing Remarks: Jim Funaro

 


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