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Senior Researcher Sonja Schmer-Galunder was interviewed for the German National Radio about the use of algorithms and psychometrics development to measure personal attributes.

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitale-psychometrie-magische-sosse.740.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=394668

The Girl Time event at The Works Museum is an event designed for girls ages 5-12 to learn about engineering from women engineers with hands-on activities and demonstrations.

Girl Time 2017 is Saturday, September 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

https://theworks.org/girls-and-engineering/

Josh Hamell has been awarded patent 9,529,357, "Mechanism for Path Specification, Visualization and Control", with Colonel Jeffrey Eggers, Dr Mark Draper, Robert Shaw, and Heath Ruff.  This patent was a product of SIFT's efforts in the FLEX-IT program with AFRL, which dealt heavily with varying levels of control within an increasingly autonomous environment.

SIFT researchers received the Best Poster award at Human Computer Interaction International (HCII) 2016 for "ATHENA – A Zero-Intrusion No Contact Method for Workload Detection using Linguistics, Keyboard Dynamics, and Computer Vision".

Congratulations to Tammy Ott, Peggy Wu, Amandalynne Paullada, Derek Mayer, Jeremy Gottlieb, and Peter Wall (Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC (SIFT), USA).

"ANSIBLE: A Virtual World Ecosystem for Improving Psycho-Social Well-being" has been selected to receive the Best Paper Award of the 8th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality.

SIFT has won the 2016 Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) Tekne award for their work in cybersecurity.  SIFT's Active Perception in Uncertain and Rapidly-Changing Environments (APERTURE) is a system that allocates resources flexibly and dynamically to configure an intrusion detection system (IDS).  The IDS focuses its attention on attack sequences that are more credible given things the IDS has seen so far, performing a cost/benefit analysis of various monitoring/detection approaches to affordably optimize system performance.  Congratulations to Robert, Mark and Scott!

In 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program. CODE’s main objective is to develop and demonstrate the use of collaborative autonomy for systems of unmanned vehicles. Various CODE participants from industry are providing the technology components necessary for vehicles to perform autonomous planning and control, and to leverage each other’s resources opportunistically during mission execution.

The R3 team, including Dr. Friedman, Dr. Burstein, Dr. McDonald, Ms. Paullada, and Dr. Plotnick, will publish the paper "Learning by Reading: Extending & Localizing Against a Model" at Advances in Cognitive Systems 2016.  The paper describes advances in semantic interpretation, ontology-mapping, model-based reasoning, and information fusion, demonstrated in the biomedical domain.

The FuzzBOMB team, including Dr. Musliner, Dr. Friedman, Mr. Boldt, and Mr. Keller, were awarded a Best Paper Award for their publication "FuzzBOMB: Autonomous Cyber Vulnerability Detection and Repair" presented at INNOV 2015.  The team will publish more detailed research on FuzzBOMB in an upcoming cybersecurity journal article.

SIFT's SAGA team contributed a book chapter to "Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practice" on our approach to helping people with PTSD.  The chapter discusses the SAGA approach to illustrate and educate players about effective therapy so they can successfully engage in evidence-based treatment.

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