CONTACT!

Who We Are

Board of Directors


Penny Boston
Microbiologist, New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology

William J. Clancey
Cognitive Science and AI,
Florida Institute for
Human and Machine Cognition

Gus Frederick
Multimedia Artist, State of Oregon

James J. Funaro
Anthropologist, Cabrillo College
Contact Founder, Chairman

Howard Heard
Film Editor and Adjunct Professor,
Art Center College of Design

Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer
The SETI Institute

Johanna Silverthorne
Graphic Communications Designer

Israel Zuckerman
Independent Anthropologist

Officers


James J. Funaro
Founder and CEO
Anthropologist, Cabrillo College

Robert Tyzzer
Secretary
Retired Educator

Gerald D. Nordley
Treasurer
Astronautical Engineer, Writer

Reed D. Riner
Listmeister
SOLSYS founder. Educator, NAU

Candace Sanford Lowe
Retired Stanford Admin., Writer
Listmeisterin

Special Thanks to:


Gus Frederick
for website development and maintenance.

Michael Wallis
for website hosting and technical assistance


Participants in CONTACT since 1983*

Anthropologists

Mischa B Adams
James Armstrong
Paul Bohannan #
Charlotte Brassard
Jen Clodius
Kathryn Denning
Phil DeVita
Suzanne Engler
Jan English-Lueck
Ben Finney
James J. Funaro
LuAnne Hudson
Barbara Joans
Morton Klass
Don Marshall
Mark Meadows
Michelle Merrill
Lyn Miles
Jim Moore
Mel Neville
Arthur H. Niehoff
Doug Raybeck
Reed Riner
Richard Robbins
Devayani Smith
Robert N. Tyzzer
Charles Urbanowicz
Dirk van der Elst
Elizabeth Viau
Richard Zimmer
Israel Zuckerman

Behavioral Scientists

Lara Battles
Yvonne Clearwater
Mal Cohen
Jim Dator
Richard F. Haines
Albert A. Harrison #
Chris Jones
Ken Koenig
John Lilly
Patricia MacEwan
John Carter McKnight
Marvin Minsky
Barbara Oakley
Jim Pass
Steve Pinker
Wendy L. Schultz
Allucquere(Sandy) Stone
Melanie Swan
Allen Tough
Larry Victor
Tom Zane
Eric M. Jones

Writers

Karen Anderson #
Poul Anderson #
Greg Bear
Greg Benford
Michael Bishop
David Brin
Dave Brody
Octavia Butler
Andrew Chaikin
C.J. Cherryh #
Arthur Clarke %
Keith Ferrell
Alan Dean Foster
James T. Hogan
Mary Mason
Larry Niven
G. David Nordley
Charles Ostman
Jerry Pournelle
Paul Preuss
Kim Stanley Robinson
Donald Scott #
William Tenn
Harry Turtledove
Vernor Vinge
Tim Wolf
Rudy Rucker
Andy Weir

Artists

Darrell Anderson
Ruthmarie Arguello-Sheehan
Jeffrey Armstrong
Beth Avary
Wayne Barlowe
Ctein
Carter Emmart
Gus Frederick
Joel Hagen #
Steven Hanly
William Hartmann
Howard Heard
Ron Holthuysen
B.E. Johnson
Pamela Lee
Creon Levit
Margë McMahon
David Palermo
Wolf Read
James-Lee Stanley
Maureen Starkey
Rick Sternbach
William Street #
Marin van-Dujn

Computer Technologists

Bruce Cordell
Bruce Damer
Keith Doyle
Todd Goldenbaum
Terrel Hoffman
Stefan Jones
Mark Meadows
Maclen Marvit
James Waldrop
Michael Wallis
Gayle Wiesner

Space Scientists, Engineers, and Astrobiologists

Athena Andreadis
Ted Blackmon
Barry Blumberg
Michael Bolte
Bill Borucki
Penny Boston
Geoff Briggs
James D. Burke
Paula Butler #
Bill Clancey
Sir Arthur C. Clarke %
Paul Davies
Peter Diamandes
Martyn Fogg
Andrew Fraknoi
Stephen Gillett
Hy Hartman
William Hartmann
Eric M. Jones
Richard D. Johnson
Jordin Kare
Geoffrey Landis
Larry Lemke
Andrei Linde
Mark Lupisella
Thomas R McDonough
Chris McKay #
David Moore
Dave Morrison
Carol Oliver
Daryl Rasmussen
Silvan Read
Rusty Schweickart
Seth Shostak
Paul Shuch
Michael Sims
Carol Stoker
Gerald Nordley
Seth Shostak
Jonathan vos Post
Robert Zubrin


Colleagues In Other Fields
or Not Catagorized

Philip Aaberg
Denise Aedan
Dennis L. Albers
Carol Anderson
Greg Barr #
Scott Beach #
Peter Beagle
Janet Beauchamp
Joana Benjamin
Peter Bishop
Carol Bowman-Porter #
Harry Braun
Bill Bryner
Eileen Burris
Dale Buskirk
Paul Butler
Loren Carpenter
Rachel Carpenter
Matt Castleberry
Chris Chyba
Pedro Coelho
Kathleen Connell
Rick Cook
Robert W. Cook
Doug Cooper
Herb Dalla
Don Davis
Bonnie DeVarco
John Dibacco
Ted E. Downing
Marilyn Dudley-Flores
Edward Edwards
Stephen Ellis
Catherine Elston
Ted Everts
Chris Ford
Marsha Freeman
Rob Furey
Thomas Gangale
Christina Garza
Tom Gates
Luther Gerlock
Zann Gill
Fabienne Gouz-Baudiment
Linda Groff
Pat Hayes
Randall Hayes
Keith Henson
John Hibbs
Butler Hine
Mary Hoadley
Marsha Ivins
Annice Jacobi
Bruce Jakosky
Bernard Kirsch
John Knoll
Joe Lambert
Jeroen Lapré
Wim Laws
Nolan Leblanc
Michael Lee
Doug Lenat
John Lewis
Tom Lombardo

Colleagues In Other Fields
or Not Catagorized

Bob MacElroy
Mary Ann Maher
Michael Martin-Smith
Pat McKercher
Molly McLaughlin
Robert F. McMahon
Steven Miller
Jo Ann Mooneyham
Oliver Morton
Jeay Moss #
Ken Musgrave
Takashi Nakamura
Bonnie Nardi
Masamichi Osako
Larry Payne
Ted Peters
Jonathan Post
Margaret Race
Gail Rice
Bill Roe
Dennis Rohatyn
Ruby Rohrlich
Gabriel Rshaid
Juanita Ryan
Paul Saffo
Scott Sawyer
Kathy Scavone
Ernie Schloss
Greg Schmidt
Rob Schumaker
Rick Schwall:
John Searle
Carlo Séquin
Donald Scott #
Michael Shields
Michio Shimizu
Leonard Shlain
Marc Siege
Phil Slater
Ed Smallwood
Vivian Sobchack
John Spenser
Chuck Stein
Larry Stevensen
John H. Stewart
Chuck Stovitz
Sue Stone #
Reid Stowe
Josh Summit
Dee Supple
Dave Tamori
Shelley Thomson
John W. Traphagan
Kathy Tyzzer
Doug Vakoch
Connie van Praet
Mary Vaughn
Phil Vaughn
Peter von Stackelberg
Wyn Wachorst
Artemis Westerberg
Mary Clare Woodson
Alan Bricklin
Randall Clague
Robert John Russell
Donald M. Scott
Marc Siegel

#CONTACT Board Member Emeritus

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