Earth. The Final Frontier Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the
universe's radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W …

Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400
million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 …

We develop an improved cost function to be used in simulated annealing followed by hill-
climbing to find Boolean functions satisfying multiple desirable criteria such as high …

Außerirdische, über deren Daseinsumstände, Körperlichkeit und technisches Vermögen wir
keinerlei Kenntnisse besäßen, wären uns „maximal fremd “. Sie wären als tatsächliche oder …

For the past decade, there has been debate within the medical, ethical and legal
communities focusing on the issue of medical futility, a concept which is not new to the …

There is something beguiling about paradox. The visual paradoxes of Maurits Escher's
prints never fail to entice the eye. Poems such as Robert Graves' Warning to Children, which …

This paper presents a stochastic variant of Hennessy-Milner logic that is interpreted over
(state-labeled) inhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chains (ICTMCs), ie, Markov chains …

This article discusses from a semiotic perspective one important variable—anthropocentrism—
present in various proposed messages intended to communicate with offworld intelligences …

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been used with great success on various real-world
problems. One domain abundant with numerous difficult problems is cryptology. Cryptology …

In this paper, we determine the habitability of Sun-like stars in the Galaxy using Monte Carlo
simulations, which are guided by the factors of the Drake Equation for the considerations on …