Montebugnoli-Maccone

Yet another honor for SETI League members: Stelio Montebugnoli (left) and Claudio Maccone last month received the 2002 "Searching for Interstellar Communications" award from the Academia Italiani per la Ricersa Scientifica Distribuita (AIRSD). Dr. Montebugnoli's citation reads, "for having installed the SETI SERENDIP IV piggybacked with the 32 meters VLBI antenna and for having started the SETI research in Italy ... Real pioneer and great divulgator of the Italian SETI." Dr. Maccone's citation recognizes "his studies about the building of a radio-telescope in the Daedalus crater, on the far side of the Moon, about the use of the Sun, Alpha Centauri A-B-C and of the Barnard's Star as gravitational lenses, about interstellar relativistic flights and the use of KLT (Karhunen-Loève Transform) for SETI's purposes."

AIRSD photo
14-12-2002