商品簡介
Drawn from the proceedings of the NASA sponsored Astrobiology Science Conference held in League, Texas in April 2010, this collection of articles showcases current scholarship in the field of extraterrestrial communication. The work is divided into sections covering the latest advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, Active SETI and interstellar message construction and individual essays address such topics as new technology and beacon construction, SETI and international radio law and testing for SETI message design. Individual papers include numerous illustrations tables and graphs. Contributors are academics from a wide variety of disciplines working with SETI technology. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Douglas A. Vakoch is Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.