CONTACT XXVI
March 26-28, 2010 NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA

Friday
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 WELCOME - Jim Funaro
9:15 AMES WELCOME - Steve Zornetzer, Ames Associate Director
9:30 COTI CLASSIC – ISRAEL ZUCKERMAN (Co-ordinator)
10:00 TODD KLAUS - An Overview of the Kepler Mission, a Search for
   Earth-Size Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
10:30 CAROL STOKER - The Habitability of the Phoenix Landing Site
11:00 JEROEN LEPRÉ & MATTHEW BLACKWELL,
   Epsilon Aurigae Dome Show
11:30 BRUCE DAMER - The EvoGrid: An Artificial Origin of Life Experiment &
   CONTACT Challenge
12:00 Lunch
1:30 MICHAEL SIMS – Human 2.0
2:00 MELANIE SWAN - Revolutionizing Biology with Personal Genomes
2:30 BILL CLANCEY - Consciousness, Schemas, and SETI:
   The Search for Human Intelligence
3:00 Human-rating Automated and Robotic Systems – A Panel
   LYNN BAROFF & ANDREW MISHKIN (Organizers)
   panelists - BILL CLANCEY, CAROL STOKER, DARREL JAN, MARK LUPISELLA
4:30 COTI CLASSIC - Reports from the Teams
5:00 CLOSING REMARKS
5:30 Building Closes; Dinner On Your Own
9:00 on - Gathering at Ames Lodge

Saturday
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 DON SCOTT - The Ecologist, the Mythologist, and the Poet
9:30 REED RINER - What Anthropology Brings to the Study of Futures
10:00 YVONNE CLEARWATER - Space Exploration: Art, Science or
   Entertainment?
10:30 LARRY LEMKE - Flying on Titan
11:00 RANDALL HAYES - Cognitive Dissonance as a Cognitive Universal
11:30 GUS FREDERICK - Space and Time Warp Videos

12:00 Lunch
1:30 SETH SHOSTAK - Broadcasting to ET: A Dangerous Thing to Do?
2:00 JIM FUNARO - Small Town Monkeys in the Big City: Problems of Scale
2:30 JIM MOORE - What's The Difference Between A Chimpanzee And A Bonobo?
3:00 CHRIS FORD - Simulating Humans in Super Reality
3:30 AVATAR: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful – A Panel
   JIM FUNARO (Organizer)
   panelists:SETH SHOSTAK,CHRIS FORD,JOEL HAGEN,
   GUS FREDERICK,HOWARD HEARD, KEN KOENIG
   and BRUCE DAMER
4:30 COTI CLASSIC - Reports from the Teams
5:00 Artshow & Reception
6:00 Banquet
8:00 Keynote Speaker: AL HARRISON – Are We Prepared?
   Fifty Years of Waiting for ET
10:00 on - Gathering at Ames Lodge

Sunday
9:30 Continental Breakfast
Reminder: Checkout Time at the Ames Lodge is 11:00
10:00 JIM PASS - Progress in Astrosociology
10:30 DONNA DUERK - Moon Habitats: Sausages, Tuna Cans, Or Doughnuts?
11:00 ROBERTA GOODMAN - Talking with Dolphins: Who's Testing Whom?
11:30 ULRICH WINTER - The Two Sides of Contact - Who's Testing Whom?

12:00 Lunch
1:30 COTI CLASSIC – Contact!
3:00 CLOSING REMARKS - Jim Funaro