Sending and searching for interstellar messages

Starry Messages: Searching for Signatures of Interstellar Archaeology

Searching for signatures of cosmic-scale archaeological artifacts such as Dyson spheres or Kardashev civilizations is an interesting alternative to conventional SETI. Uncovering such an artifact does not require the intentional transmission of a signal on the part of the original civilization. This type of search is called interstellar archaeology or sometimes cosmic archaeology. The detection ...

Sending Messages in UML

In this paper we try to clarify the issue of associations as a communication infrastructure between objects, in search for a unified view of the static and dynamic aspects of associations. Communication through associations depends on navigability and visibility, therefore the interlacement of these two concepts is examined. But first the very definition of navigability has to be settled, since...

Sending Mixed Messages for Cell Population Control

Cells often receive signals to proliferate, but how population density is controlled is unclear. Hart et al. now show that a single secreted molecule that instructs both proliferation and death in T cells establishes a bistable response: the population is driven to either extinction or to a homeostatically defined density.

Limits on Interstellar Messages

Learning between projects: More than sending messages in bottles

Although learning from projects has gained much importance in research and practice, progress in understanding and improving inter-project learning appears to be slight. We argue that the adoption of a sender/receiver approach limits the learning effectiveness in project-based organisations. Drawing upon the notion of learning as a social activity embedded in an organisational context, we devel...