implications for us all, sponsored jointly by nasa and boston university and chaired by professor richard berenson. let me briefly introduce the panel from the far side is dr. ashley montague, who is a world renowned anthropologist and social biologist. next to him is dr. christopher stendhal, who an outstanding churchman and theologian who is now the dean of the prestigious school and divinity at harvard university theological circles. dr. stendhal is considered one of the nation's most scholarly theologians next to me is dr. carl sagan, who is an astronomer at cornell university, and probably one of the five or six leading researchers on this question of extraterrestrial life is the coauthor with schloss of the soviet union and the very famous book, intelligent life in the universe. to my right is philip morrison, who is professor of physics at mit and 13 years ago he was a coauthor of what is perhaps the first scientifically valid, reasonable paper ever published on what might well be a possible mode of communication with extraterrestrial life. dr. morrison is considered out among scholarly as