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SIFT wins SAGA: Sequential Arts via Game Assistance

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

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

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

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

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.

SIFT researcher organizes program for grad students

SIFT researcher Ugur Kuter has recently organized The Student Abstracts and Posters (SAP) Program at AAAI-11 conference this year. The goal of this program was to provide a forum in which students can present and discuss their work during its early stages, meet some of their peers who have related interests, and introduce themselves to more senior members of the field. The program is held every year with AAAI and is open to all graduate students.

SIFT Researcher Authors Article

SIFT Principal Researcher, Mr. Dan Thomsen, has recently completed a DARPA SBIR phase 1 SBIR program on massive collaborative problem solving. In the spirit of collaboration Mr. Thomsen wrote a paper with his competitor. The paper titled "Explorations in Massively Collaborative Problem Solving" written by Kshanti Greene,  Dan Thomson, and Pietro Michelucci will appear in SocialCom-11 this October.

SIFT researchers author article to be presented in the AWARE workshop at SASO 2011!

SIFT researchers  Dr. David Musliner, Jeff Rye, Dan Thomsen, Dr. David McDonald, and Dr. Mark Burstein along with DOLL researcher Paul Robertson authored "FUZZBUSTER: Towards Adaptive Immunity from Cyber Threats". The paper describes the preliminary implementation of the Fuzzbuster software. This paper will be presented at the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Ann Arbor Michigan, October 3-7. 

SIFT and University of Edinburgh collaborate on Plan Recognition Research

SIFT Principal Researcher, Dr. Robert Goldman, has recently collaborated with Dr. Christopher Geib of the University of Edinburgh on plan recognition research written up in the paper entitled "Recognizing Plans with Loops Represented in a Lexicalized Grammar."  Plan recognition is the problem of attempting to infer an agent's intentions or plans based on observations of the agent's action.

Dr. Ugur Kuter Adds Two Papers to His List of Publications!

SIFT Researcher, Dr. Ugur Kuter, has recently published two new papers from the 6th International Explanation-Aware CompuTing (EXACT) Workshop.

M. Molineaux, U. Kuter, and M. Klenk. 2011. What Just Happened? Explaining the Past in Planning and Execution.

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