The Alien Communication Handbook: So We Received a Signal-Now What?

About This BookC-DayWhat Happens If SETI Succeeds?The Limits of CommunicationPrerequisites For Interstellar CommunicationIncentives For Interstellar CommunicationIntelligenceObservablesSymbolic CommunicationInteractionMessage Analysis and ComprehensionModulationRadio SignalsAmplitude ModulationPulse Width ModulationPulse Interval ModulationFrequency ModulationPhase ModulationOptical SignalsPulse length modulationPulse Interval ModulationWavelength modulation or multiplexingOther Modulation SchemesHow Much Information Can ET Send?Radio / Microwave CommunicationOptical and Infrared Communication (Pulsed Beacons)Annual Transmission CapacityInscribed Matter & ArtifactsBracewell ProbesConclusionsLessons From Computing and CommunicationsSegmenting DataForward Error CorrectionHow Much Error Correction Is Enough?Building A TreeHinting At Message StructureEntropy: Looking For Order Among RandomnessImagesBitmapsAssisting The Receiver In The Decoding ProcessColor ImagesImage CompressionThree Dimensional Images and ModelsStereoscopic ImageryPoint CloudsMeshesProgrammatically Generated ObjectsFour Dimensions (Video and Simulations)Motion PicturesCompressionImplicit CompressionAlgorithmic CompressionSimulationsSoundData RequirementsRecognizing AudioPulsars -- A "Standard Bell"Audio CompressionSets, Symbolic Networks, & Constructed LanguagesGenomic Information And ETAlgorithmic CommunicationBASIC for ETBoolean ArithmeticMath OperationsData OperationsMemory (Variables)Input / Output InterfacesInter-Program CommunicationInput/Output InterfacesComparison Operations and BranchingModularity and ReuseApplying These Concepts To An ET Programming LanguageLogic Gate NetworksThe Limits Of Computation, AI and Sentient MessagesLevel 0 : Static (Non-Interactive) InformationLevel 1 : Pre-Authored Algorithmic MessagesLevel 2 : Narrow AILevel 3 : General AI (Sentient Messages)Lessons From Animal Communication Research [work in progress]Information Theory and Language StructureAnimal Communication ResearchLimitations of Animal Communication as a SETI AnalogMesh Networks (The Galactic Internet)Analytic Tools & UtilitiesThe Interstellar Communication RelayTier 0 : Raw Data AccessTier 1 : Derived Signal DataTier 2 : Demodulated Data StreamsTier 3 : Structured Data ExtractionInitial Analysis and VisualizationLow Level Decoding and File/Object ExtractionMedia Extraction and ConversionN-Dimensional ModelsAlgorithmic Communication SystemsParsing Metadata, Semantic Networks, EtcGenomic InformationOther Data Types (Unknown Unknowns)SummaryFlow Diagram and Decision TreeRecommended Reading