Smart Information Flow Technologies

About SIFT

Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) is a research and development consulting company specializing in Human Factors and Artificial Intelligence. SIFT's goal is to make the information flow between humans and technology better for both sides -- more efficient, productive, pleasant, and safer. In order to achieve this goal SIFT employs top engineers in the fields of Computer Science and Psychology who specialize in Human Computer Interaction, Interface Design, Human Performance, Artificial Intelligence, Network and Cybersecurity, and Politeness and Etiquette models.
Since our inception in 1999, SIFT personnel have extended the state of the art in a wide range of domains from commercial and military flight decks to DoD small unit operations and have authored well over a hundred papers documenting our many contributions to the state of the art in multiple fields.
SIFT's highly experienced staff includes: Chris Miller, Robert Goldman, David Musliner, Eric Engstrom, David McDonald, Mark Burstein, Dan Thomsen, John Maraist, Terry Zimmerman, Peggy Wu, Mike Pelican, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Jeff Rye, Josh Hamell, Tammy Ott, Harry Funk, Tim Woods, Ugur Kuter, and Kip Smith.
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SIFT wins SAGA: Sequential Arts via Game Assistance

Posted on Monday 12/19/2011 - 12:31

SIFT was awarded a phase 1 SBIR titled "SAGA: Sequential Art via Game Assistance." This SBIR combines social games and AI-directed therapy to help treat soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by creating sequential art (graphic novels) to tell their story.

SIFT Researcher to contribute to Dana Nau tribute symposium and book

Posted on Thursday 12/15/2011 - 12:20

SIFT Researcher Ugur Kuter was asked to contribute a paper to and present at the Festshcrift tribute symposium given to Dana Nau. This work will subsequently be published in a book also organized by Festshcrift.

SIFT Researcher is guest editor for IEEE Journal

Posted on Thursday 12/15/2011 - 12:12

SIFT Researcher Dan Thomsen is a Guest Editor for the November/December 2012 special issue of IEEE Security & Privacy on "Lost Treasures of Computer Security & Privacy."

For more information: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/spcfp6

SIFT Senior Researcher's paper accepted to the AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems

Posted on Thursday 12/01/2011 - 13:25

SIFT Senior Researcher David McDonald's paper "The Location of Words: Evidence from generation and spatial description" has been accepted to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems.

SIFT Researcher's collaboration with the University of Maryland College Park reported in two papers

Posted on Thursday 10/13/2011 - 10:26

SIFT Researcher Ugur Kuter has recently collaborated with Dr. Jennifer Golbeck and her students at the University of Maryland College Park, studying computational models for social trust and social interactions in adversarial scenarios. This work will be reported in two recent papers entitled "CareTaker: A Social Game for Studying Trust Dynamics" and "Coevolving Strategies in Social-Elimination Games." The first paper presents a new Web-based game that provides a framework for studying trust and understanding how trust affects social strategies developed by human players. The second paper provides coevolutionary analysis of how different strategies evolve in a class of social games via an evolutionary formalism for modeling a player that is capable of learning and adapting its strategies to act with the other members of its own group and against those of a conflicting group. Both papers will be presented at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011).