Paul Horowitz: "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" | Talks at...

source: Talks at Google    2016年3月21日
Paul Horowitz visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project at Harvard University.
Establishing an electromagnetic communications link across a thousand light-years presents unique technological challenges. In his talk, Prof. Horowitz visits some highlights of the science and technology of SETI -- Do THEY exist? Is communication possible? What is the best way? Is this just completely insane? -- and describes interesting searches his project and others have been doing.
Paul Horowitz is a Research Professor of Physics and of Electrical Engineering at Harvard, and is co-author of The Art of Electronics.
SETI at Harvard was supported in part by grants from NASA, The Planetary Society, and the Bosack/Kruger Charitable Foundation.
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