C Bangs
C Bangs has a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA from Pratt Institute in painting and sculpture. She has ben exhibiting her work professionally since 1977 in the United States, Europe and Australia. Her work is included in the permanent collections of museums in the United States and Italy. Ms. Bangs has been producing astronomical/astronautical art since 1985. She has received several commissions throughout her career, most recently a grant to construct a rainbow holographic message plaque for NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center. Her work has been featured in books authored by Dr. Gregory Matloff. As well, her work has been included in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Her work is currently represented by Art Resources Transfer, Inc., 210 11th Ave., New York, New York.

Annick Bureaud
Annick Bureaud, living and working in Paris, France. Executive director of Leonardo/Olats (Leonardo French activities, www.olats.org). New media art critic (Art press), teacher in new media arts at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence, guest lecturer at the SAIC (School of the Art Institute Chicago) and the UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal). Founder and editor of the IDEA online (International Directory of Electronic Arts, http://nunc.com).

Richard Clar
Richard Clar is a Southern California Space Artist now based in Paris. He is the Director of Art Technologies, Los Angeles/Paris. An early pioneer of art-in-space, Richard began interdisciplinary projects in 1982 with the design of a NASA approved art payload for the U.S. Space Shuttle. In 1995, in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, he created a constellation sculpture in sun-synchronous orbit using 297 orbital debris objects. His focus on the creation of art-in-space utilizes data and processes related to the various facets of space. Subjects include the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Orbital Debris, issues of War, and aspects related to Water. Richard's work seeks to engage a broad audience from varied cultural backgrounds.

Currently, he is on the Board of Directors of the Cosmica Network and is Artist-in-Residence at Comphania Espacial Portuguesa Lda., Portugal. Recently he was the Secretary of the International Academy of Astronautics Subcommittee on Art and Literature. He has served on the Graphic Arts Council Executive Board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Steve Deihl
For more than fifteen years I have been living and working as an artist in New York. Originally, I studied astronomy and engineering at the University of Iowa but after a summer in Paris, through Parsons School of Design, I changed my focus and became an art student. This diverse background has led me to undertake many artistic projects which involve science concepts as their foundation.

I have had many exhibitions of my artwork in New York and abroad, often accompanied by an astronomy lecture featuring slides from the Hubble Space Telescope. My paintings vary from the abstract Landscape series to the more realistic Star Series. In March, 2001, I was invited as the first artist-in-residence at the new Bellevue Art Museum in Washington where I maintained a studio and offered public programs dealing with the influence of Hubble imagery on my work.

The constants project is another such linkage between science and art. Universal constants are specific numbers which are identities of Nature, such as the speed of light. A portfolio of eleven prints was recently published pairing my visual interpretations with each respective number. By the year 2015, NASA would have the capacity to launch a solar sail, which could carry a hologram containing these constants images, along with other artists

Julien Knebusch
Julien Knebusch received a Master

Lui Lam
Lui Lam did his thesis at Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has worked on three continents

Roger Malina
Roger F. Malina is an astronomer and space scientist, with degrees in Physics (MIT, 1972) and astronomy (Berkeley, 1979). Formerly Director of the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley, He is currently serving as Director of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, and Co-Chairman of their Committee on Space Activities and Society. Dr. Malina is also Chairman of the Board of the non-profit professional organization Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). He serves as the Executive Editor of Publications for the scholarly journal Leonardo and the Leonardo Book Series published by MIT Press. He has served on a number of art juries and conference organizing committees, including the International Symposium for the Electronic Arts, the jury for the Louis Vuitton Science for Art Prize, and the Ars Electronica art juries. For a number of years he has organized workshops on space and the arts in Paris, which bring together artists, writers, space scientists, and engineers.

Michael Matessa
Michael Matessa is a Research Psychologist working at NASA Ames Research Center. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University working on an interactive computer model of communication that adapted to the language use of its partner. His current projects include the design of a communication tool to help Mars Rover scientists, the simulation of pilot interaction with aircraft controls, and the evaluation of next generation space shuttle displays. His research interests include computational modelling of communication, human/computer interaction, language learning, and memory.

Gregory L. Matloff
Gregory L. Matloff has an M.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Planetary Atmospheres, both from New York University. He has more than 70 scientific and technical publications in fields including atmospheric pollution, spacecraft navigation, space astronomy, and advanced spacecraft design. Dr. Matloff is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and a Member of the Space and Society Commmittee of the International Academy of Astronautics. His five books include two on interstellar travel--The Starflight Handbook (Wiley, NY, 1989) and Deep-Space Probes (Praxis-Springer, Chichester, UK, 2000). He served as guest professor at the University of Siena, Italy, during summer 1995 and teaches physics and astronomy at the City University of New York and New School University. Dr. Matloff has served as faculty fellow at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, AL during the summers of 1999, 2000, and 2001.

Brian McConnell
Brian McConnell is a telecommunications engineer, author and entrepreneur. He has written extensively about emerging communications technologies, and has also founded several telecom companies. His most recent venture is a telephone based email technology that enables people to compose messages by voice. He is currently working on a multilingual dictionary and distributed computing project, the Worldwide Lexicon. He has also written a book about SETI, Beyond Contact : A Guide to SETI & Communicating with Alien Civilizations. The book, published by O'Reilly & Associates, explains SETI from an technology perspective. Mr. McConnell is an alumnus of Virginia Tech, where he studied electrical engineering and business.

Eduardo Reck Miranda
Eduardo Reck Miranda holds a PhD in Music and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and he currently conducts research in the field of speech communication systems at Sony Computer Science Laboratory. Dr Miranda is an active composer in his own right. He has been awarded a music composition fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, and has won several international prizes for his compositions. He is one of the creators of the Brazilian Computer Music Association (NUCOM) and member of the editorial board of Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). He is the author of two books: Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician and Composing Music with Computers, both published by Focal Press (Oxford, UK) in 1998 and 2001, respectively.

Mary Kate Morris
Dr. Mary Kate Morris is a Research Scientist at the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Public Health. Her primary research interests are in HIV immunology and virology.

Paolo Musso
Paolo Musso is Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Nature at the Pontifical Urbanian University of Roma. He was born in Roma, Italy, on November 13, 1964. He studied Philosophy of Science in the University of Genova, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1990 with Prof. Evandro Agazzi. In 1997 he got his Ph.D. with a dissertation about the philosophical implications of theories of chaos and complexity, working with Prof. Tito Fortunato Arecchi, Director of the National Institute of Optics of Firenze, one of the world

Alexander Ollongren
Alexander Ollongren is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Computer Science and Guest Professor of Astronomy at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His fields of interest include syntax and semantics of formal languages, functional programming, numerical mathematics, dynamical astronomy in the galaxy and solar system, and logic.

Ollongren became interested many years ago in the formalism of Hans Freudenthal's Language for Cosmic Intercourse (Lingua Cosmica, or Lincos), and he first considered reformulating Lincos in terms of concepts in list processing, itself based on the lambda calculus in logic. He realised later that too many primitives would be involved and changed course in 1999 to reformulating Lincos in terms of constructive logic. This formalism is also based on the lambda calculus, but in a type-theoretic setting, with a minimal set of basic concepts. He has used the new Lingua Cosmica system to explain the logic contents of various kinds of messages for ETI.

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Patricia Margaret Sterns
Ms. Patricia Margaret Sterns has been engaged in the private practice of law, as a member of the Bar of the State of Arizona since 1978. She was admitted to practice before the Federal Bar in 1978, and the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1986. She actively served by appointment as a Judge Pro Tempore of the Arizona Superior Court from 1983 through 1999.

She has been an active member of the International Institute of Space Law since 1979 (attending first in 1977, and presenting as an author since 1978). She currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the IISL and has been an officer and board member of its Association of U.S. Members since 1985.

She is a member of the following organizations, and numerous of their subsections: International Astronautical Federation, Law Offices of Sterns and Tennen admitted as a Member Society (1993 to present); International Academy of Astronautics (corresponding member 1993) (full member 1993 to present); American Society of International Law (1981 to present), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1980 to present), Aviation/Space Writer's Association (1981 to dissolution of organization), the International Bar Association (1991 to present), International Law Association (1996 to present), American Bar Association (1978 to present), Arizona and Maricopa County Bar Associations (1978 to present), and is a Fellow of the Arizona State Bar Foundation (since 1986).

Ms. Sterns has published extensively in numerous journals and publications. She has participated by invitation as a consultant in the NASA Workshop on Planetary Protection Issues and Human Exploration of Mars, has guest lectured in Space Law at the American Graduate School of International Management, Arizona State University, and participated as a Lecturer, Participant, and Author at Princeton University in the Third Space Manufacturing Facilities Conference, as well as various other Workshops and Symposia with respect to Space Law issues. Her undergraduate degree was obtained in classical philosophy, and her law school thesis was written in the area of law and technology.

By invitation, she has been included in numerous listings of Who's Who, including Jane's Who's Who In Aviation and Aerospace, and Who's Who in American Law.

Douglas Vakoch
As the SETI Institute's Interstellar Message Group Leader, Douglas Vakoch studies approaches to constructing interstellar messages. He is particularly interested in how we might compose interstellar messages that would begin to express what it's like to be human. His current project in interstellar message composition focuses on communicating concepts about the evolution of altruism, as seen from sociobiological and philosophical perspectives. In 2001, he chaired the Toulouse Workshop on Interstellar Message Composition. For additional details, see http://www.templeton.org/speakers/bios.asp?id=42

Dan Werthimer
Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of the SETI@home and SERENDIP SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley. He was associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and has been a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, Eotvos University in Budapest, and taught at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. Werthimer has published numerous papers in the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education; he is co-author of SETI 2020 and editor of Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe.

Arthur Woods
Arthur Woods is a space artist and cultural entrepreneur. He spent his youth living near the Kennedy space center in Florida where he witnessed the beginning of the American space program and where he later worked during the Apollo program. In 1970 he graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, USA with studies in psychology, literature and art. After beginning his career as an artist in California, he settled in Switzerland in 1974. In the mid-eighties he was one of several artists around the world who proposed to create art works in the environment of outer space. His Orbiting Unification Ring Satellite (OURS) project to put "a circle in the sky" to celebrate the new millennium with a large orbital sculpture led to the manufacture of a prototype inflatable space sculpture (OUR-SPS) built in 1990 by NPO Energia in the Soviet Union and later to the realization of two art-in-space projects flown on the Mir space station: the spaceflight of his Cosmic Dancer Sculpture in 1993 and "Ars Ad Astra: the 1st Art Exhibition in Earth Orbit" in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) on its EuroMir95 mission. He is currently a co-developer of the online research project: ITSF - Innovative Technologies in Science Fiction for Space Applications initiated by ESA. He is founder and president the OURS Foundation - a non-profit cultural and astronautical organization and is founder and CEO of Swissart GmbH an Internet company that develops and maintains "swissart.net" - Switzerland's art portal for the contemporary arts. He is a corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (FIAAA) and a guest lecturer at the International Space University (ISU).

Alexander Zaitsev
Date and site of birth: May 19, 1945, Shchelkovo, a town 25 km northeast of Moscow. Received the B. S. degree in radio engineering from the Moscow Mining University, in 1967, and the M. S. and Ph.D. in radar astronomy from the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science (IRE RAS), Moscow. Present position: Chief Scientist, Radar Astronomy Department, IRE RAS.

There are three main stages of his scientific activity. First - design and implementation of theory and devices for radar study of Venus, Mars, Mercury, and especially, direct digital synthesizers of coherent radar signals (the subject of his Ph.D. Thesis, 1981), second - near-Earth asteroid radar research (the subject of his Professor D. Thesis, 1997), and third - interstellar radio broadcasting (at present). He is a sustaining member of the Spaceguard Foundation, Rome, Italy.

Honors:

1980 - Sergei Koroliov Gold Medal of Soviet Space Federation.

1985 - USSR Government Premium in Science for radio science study of Venus atmosphere.

1994 - Konstantin Tsiolkovski Gold Medal of Russian Space Federation.

1995 - International Astronomical Union named the asteroid number 6075 as "Zajtsev".