Description: Seminar, one hour. Focus on search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Discussion of computer science to debunk certain findings of paranormal phenomena. Covers signal processing (astrophotography, computer vision) and distributed computing, broad knowledge of which is required for research in this field. Addresses philosophical implications of extraterrestrial search and in particular, first-contact. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Aditya Mishra, with Achuta Kadambi as faculty mentor.

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