SPACE.com:
Astronomer Frank Drake, the man who 50 years ago founded the
SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute, was
honored Saturday in California at
SETIcon. The convention
featured talks and panels centering on the science, and science
fiction, of extraterrestrial life. In Drake's first experiment
in 1960, called Project Ozma, he pointed a radio telescope
located at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green
Bank, West Virginia, toward two nearby Sun-like stars, to try
to detect a signal that might indicate intelligent life. Drake
also formulated an equation to calculate how many intelligent
extraterrestrial civilizations are likely to exist in the Milky
Way. At 80, Drake is still active in SETI.
