CONTACT!
Who We Are

Board of Directors

Penny Boston
Microbiologist, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Kathryn Denning
Anthropologist & Archeologist, York University

William J. Clancey
Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, NASA Ames

Gus Frederick
Multimedia Artist, State of Oregon

James J. Funaro
Anthropologist, Cabrillo College

Christopher P. McKay
Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames

Jean Moss
Retired

Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, The SETI Institute

Donald M. Scott
Teacher, Independent Scholar, Writer

Israel Zuckerman
Independent Anthropologist

Officers

Gerald D. Nordley, Treasurer

Robert Tyzzer, Secretary

Reed D. Riner, Listmeister

Conference Staff

Jean Moss
Kathy Landess
Terri Weitze
Bill Weitze
Gayle Wiesner
Spring Shoenhuth
David Galaher
Juanita Martinez
Julie Porter
Bill Wilson
Fred Moulton

CONTACT Committee

Jean Moss
David Blanchette
Bill Wilson
Terri Weitze
Nancy Zuidema
Ken Sholar
Kathy Landess
Julie Porter
Mike Baldwin
Johanna Silverstone

Special Thanks to:

Gus Frederick for the website development and maintenance.

Participants in CONTACT since 1983

Writers

Karen Anderson
Poul Anderson
Greg Bear
Greg Benford
Michael Bishop
Octavia Butler
David Brin
C. J. Cherryh
Keith Ferrell
Alan Dean Foster
James T. Hogan
Mary Mason
Larry Niven
Gerald David Nordley
Charles Ostman
Jerry Pournelle
Paul Preuss
Kim Stanley Robinson
Rudy Rucker
Donald Scott
William Tenn
Tim Wolf

Artists

Darrell Anderson
Ruthmarie Arguello-Sheehan
Jeffrey Armstrong
Beth Avary
Wayne Barlowe
Ctein
Carter Emmart
Gus Frederick
Joel Hagen
Steven Hanly
William Hartmann
Howard Heard
Ron Holthuysen
B. E. Johnson
Pamela Lee
Creon Levit
Margë McMahon
David Palermo
Wolf Read
James Lee Stanley
Rick Sternbach
William Street
Marin van Dujn

Space Scientists

Ted Blackmon
Penny Boston
Paula Butler
Paul Davies
Martyn Fogg
Stephen Gillett
Hy Hartman
Richard D. Johnson
Eric M. Jones
Geoffrey Landis
Larry Lemke
Andrei Linde
Mark Lupisella
Chris McKay
Thomas R McDonough
Dave Morrison
Carol Oliver
Jonathan V. Post
Daryl Rasmussen
Seth Shostak
Michael Sims
Carol Stoker
Robert Zubrin

Anthropologists

Mischa B Adams
James Armstrong
Paul Bohannan
Jen Clodius
Phil DeVita
Suzanne Engler
Jan English-Lueck
Ben Finney
James J. Funaro
LuAnne Hudson
Barbara Joans
Morton Klass
Don Marshall
Mark Meadows
Lyn Miles
Jim Moore
Mel Neville
Arthur H. Niehoff
Doug Raybeck
Reed Riner
Richard Robbins
Devayani Smith
Robert N. Tyzzer
Charles Urbanowicz
Dirk van der Elst
Elizabeth Viau
Richard Zimmer
Israel Zuckerman

Behavioral Scientists

Lara Battles
Yvonne Clearwater
Mal Cohen
Jim Dator
Richard F. Haines
Albert A. Harrison
Chris Jones
Eric M. Jones
Ken Koenig
John Lilly
Marvin Minsky
Steve Pinker
Wendy L. Schultz
Sandy Allucquere Stone
Allen Tough
Larry Victor
Tom Zane

Computer Technologists

Bruce Damer
Keith Doyle
Todd Goldenbaum
Terrel Hoffman
Stefan Jones
Mark Meadows
Maclen Marvit
James Waldrop

Colleagues In Other Fields

Greg Barr
Scott Beach
Alan Bricklin
Keith Henson
Takashi Nakamura
Masamichi Osako
Larry Payne
Dennis Rohatyn
Gabriel Rshaid
Robert John Russell
Donald M. Scott
John Searle
Marc Siegel
Chuck Stovitz
Mary Clare Woodson