Presentation by Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris is the author of a dozen books – among them the bestsellers "The Whole Shebang" and "Coming of Age in the Milky Way", which were translated into fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the twentieth century.

Called "the best popular science writer in the English language" by The Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by The Washington Post, Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His works have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilizatioin containing music and sounds of Earth launched aboard the twin Voyager interstellar spacecraft.  Now exiting the solar system, the Voyagers are the most distant probes ever created by humans.

His three PBS documentary films -- "The Creation of the Universe," (1986), "Life Beyond Earth" (1999), and "Seeing in the Dark" (2007) have been seen by over twenty million viewers.