In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, exploited then-new technology to detect any radio signals sent by extraterrestrial intelligent life. His Project Ozma became the first modern organized effort to search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe, and Frank has been deeply involved with SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) ever since. He devised the now-famous Drake Equation, a tool by which we can estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations we are likely to encounter in our galaxy. During his 20-year tenure at Cornell University, Frank worked as director of the world's largest radio telescope, located at Arecibo in Puerto Rico. A former president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Frank is currently a Research Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Concurrently, since 1984, Frank has been President of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, whose Project Phoenix is the most powerful SETI search in the world today.

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