Dr. Jill Tarter, Director of SETI Research, and the Search for Alien Life
Silicon Valley Bank (3005 Tasman Santa Clara, CA 95054)
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dr.tarter explained how the search is setup and run and what new ideas are being discussed to expand the search. also gave background on how the information was used and others who shared in the information.Written on Feb 24 2010
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Quotes & Highlights
- Jodie Foster’s character is the movie Contact was based on Dr. Jill Tarter.
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Dr. Tarter will discuss her plans to assemble a group of engineers to advise, create, and facilitate a system of mass collaboration over the web and incorporate innovative data processing methods. And through this system, Dr. Tarter predicts that we will be able to globalize the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Astronomer Jill Tarter is Director of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s Center for SETI Research, and also holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work.
Jill led for Project Phoenix, a decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems, using telescopes in Australia, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. While no clearly extraterrestrial signal was found, this project was the most comprehensive targeted search for artificially generated cosmic signals ever undertaken. Jill currently serves on the management board for the Allen Telescope Array, a massive new instrument that will eventually comprise 350 antennas, each 6 meters in diameter. This telescope will be able to enormously increase the speed, and the spectral range, of the hunt for signals from other distant technologies by orders of magnitude.
Jill is committed to the education of future citizens and scientists. Beyond her scientific leadership at NASA and the SETI Institute, Jill has been actively involved in developing curriculum for children. She was Principal Investigator for two curriculum development projects funded by NSF, NASA, and others. One project, the Life in the Universe series, created 6 science teaching guides for grades 3-9. The other project, Voyages Through Time, is an integrated high school science curriculum on the fundamental theme of evolution in six modules: Cosmic Evolution, Planetary Evolution, Origin of Life, Evolution of Life, Hominid Evolution and Evolution of Technology.
About the Ticket Supplier: Commonwealth Club
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, presenting over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Founded in 1903, the Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Erin Brockovich in 2001. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have all given landmark speeches at the Club.