• Jill Tarter
• Director, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's Center for SETI Research

• Speaking at TED2009
• February 2009
• Long Beach, CA

Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!): The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.