Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

1. A Half-century of SETI Science
H. Paul Shuch

2. Project Ozma: The Birth of Observational SETI
H. Paul Shuch

3. Project Cyclops: The Greatest Radio Telescope Never Built
Robert Dixon

4. “Wow!” - A Tantalizing Candidate
Jerry R. Ehman

5. SETI: The NASA Years
John Billingham

6. From HRMS to Phoenix: Up from the Ashes
Peter Backus

7. SERENDIP: The Berkeley SETI Program
Stuart Bowyer

8. Millions and Billions of Channels
Darren Leigh, Paul Horowitz

9. ATA: A Cyclops for the 21st Century
Jill Tarter

10. Optical SETI: Moving Toward the Light
Monte Ross, Stuart Kingsley

11. Distributed Processing of SETI Data
Eric Korpela

12. Project Argus: Pursuing Amateur All-Sky SETI
H. Paul Shuch

13. Gravitational Lensing Extends SETI Range
Richard Factor

14. Detection Algorithms: FFT vs. KLT
Claudio Maccone

15. Implementing the KLT
Stelio Montebugnoli

16. A Sentry on the Universe
Robert Dixon

17. Pondering the Fermi Paradox
Stephen Webb

18. Focusing the Galactic Internet
Claudio Maccone

19. SETI in Science Fiction
Stephen Baxter

20. What’s Past is Prologue: Future Messages of Cosmic Evolution
Douglas A. Vakoch

21. METI: Messaging to ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Alexander L. Zaitsev

22. A Contrarian Perspective on Altruism: The Dangers of First Contact
David Brin

23.
L: How Long Do They Last?
Seth Shostak

24. What Will They Look Like?
Jack Cohen

25. Being Technological
Kathryn Denning

26. After Contact – Then What?
Albert A. Harrison

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrobiology, Signal, Image and Speech Processing