References

          AUTHOR : Freudenthal, Hans
           TITLE : Lincos; design of a language for cosmic intercourse.
        LANGUAGE : ENGLISH
       PUBLISHED : Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1960-
   PHYSICAL DESC : v. 23 cm.
          SERIES : Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics; 
         SUBJECT : Lincos (Artificial language)

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Communication with Alien Intelligence by Prof. Marvin Minsky

Bassi, Bruno Were it perfect, would it work better?, a survey of a language for cosmic intercourse

Cameron A G W (ed.) 1963 Interstellar Communication. Benjamin, New York.

Dick S J 1982 Plurality of worlds : the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Freudenthal H 1960 Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Freudenthal, Hans 1974 Cosmic Language, in T. A. Sebeok (ed), Current Trends in Linguirstics, vol 12, Mouton, The Hague, pp. 1019-1042

MacGowan R A, Ordway F I 1966 Intelligence in the Universe. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Martin, Martin C. 1991 SETI Puzzle, posted to sci.crypt, sci.astro, sci.space, rec.arts.sf-lovers and rec.puzzles.

McConnell, Brian S. 2001 Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations. O'Reilly, Cambridge, MA

McConnell, Brian S. 2002 Algorithmic Communication with ETI & Mixed Media Message Composition

Ollongren A 1998-2000 Large-size Message Construction for ETI. Abstracts IAA Congresses.

Regis Jr E (ed.) 1985 Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence. Cambridge University Press.

Sagan C 1985 Contact. Simon and Schuster, New York.

Sagan C (ed.) 1973 Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Shklovskii I S, Sagan C 1966 Intelligent Life in the Universe. Holden-Day, San Francisco, CA.

Vakoch D (ed.) 2011 Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Webb S 2002 If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens... Where is Everybody: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life New York: Praxis Publishing

(thanks to Paul Scott Wilson for suggesting some entries)

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