This award recognizes the highest impact papers from the ISWC proceedings ten years prior (i.e., in 2011 they honor a paper from 2001). The decision is based on the impact of the paper measured primarily, but not exclusively, on the number of citations to the papers from the proceedings in the intervening decade.
SIFT Principal Researcher Dr. David Musliner and Senior Researcher Dr. Terry Zimmerman have contributed to the book "Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking" edited by Michael t. Cox and Anita Raja. The book applies perspectives drawn from philosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science toward the reasoning processes involved in artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
SIFT congratulates Senior Researcher Jeffrey Rye for the award of his ninth patent!
"Systems and methods for navigating graphical displays of buildings", US Patent number 7,954,070, Thomas A. Plocher, Jeffrey M. Rye, Xianghong Sun, May 2011.
SIFT has been selected for funding under NASA's Human Research Program Behavioral Health and Performance Element. The project named AD ASTRA, will leverage SIFT's prior work in sociolinguistics to explore the unique challenges of long duration missions. Factors such as lack of team coherence, workload, social monotony, access to family and psychosocial support, and interpersonal and cultural differences are known to affect both crew welfare and task performance.
SIFT's Chief Scientist, Dr. Christopher Miller has recently been invited to participate in President Obama's Startup America initiative. The program aims to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. Along with Dr. Miller, local high-growth entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities area were asked to discuss the regulatory reforms, reductions and improvements that could be enacted to help high-growth entrepreneurs grow in our country
SIFT recently welcomed Dr. Ugur Kuter to their talented team of researchers. Dr. Kuter specializes in Artificial Intelligence. His primary research activities focus on problems that are primarily on Automated Planning and Learning, and related to Game Theory, Evolutionary Computation, Social Networks, and Semantic Web Service Composition.
SIFT recently welcomed Tim Woods to our team of researchers. Mr. Wood's research interests are in machine learning in adversarial and non-cooperative environments, and in the the security of adaptive
SIFT Congratulates Senior Researcher Dr. Terry Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman has a co-authored a paper titled "CONSERVE: Client Side Intelligent Power Scheduling" which has been chosen for inclusion in the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011).
Minnesota firms are playing a significant role in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) ambitious research effort to revolutionize the design and manufacture of complex defense systems and vehicles, broadly referred to as complex cyber physical systems. This effort, called Adaptive Vehicle Make, is a portfolio of research programs with the goal to realize a 5X reduction in the time and cost associated with designing these systems.
