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SIFT Awarded $1.6M Contract to Research Probabilistic Verification

SIFT along with teammates Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford, have been awarded a one year, $1.6M DARPA contract to work on probabilistic verification  of system designs, under the META program.  This program is sponsored by DARPA.  From the DARPA website:

SIFT Scientists to Present Work at ILC

Drs. Robert P. Goldman and John Maraist will present work at the 2010 International Lisp Conference (ILC) this month in Reno. Both of their papers and presentations will highlight recently developed programming tools.

Dr. Christopher Miller is Editor of New Book on Human Computer Etiquette

Dr. Christopher Miller is editor and co-author of three chapters in the new book Human-Computer Etiquette: Cultural Expectations and the Design Implications They Place on Computers and Technology, scheduled to be released December 22, 2010.  Also co-author on one of the chapters is another SIFT scientist, Ms. Peggy Wu.

SIFT Awarded $3M DARPA Contract to Research Cyber Immunity

SIFT has been awarded a 4-year, $3M DARPA contract to work on adaptive cyber immunity under the CRASH program. From DARPA's website:

SIFT Scientists Author Chapter in IT Handbook

SIFT Scientists Christopher Miller, Peggy Wu, Tammy Ott, and Vanessa Vakili are authors of the chapter, "Politeness and Etiquette Modeling," in the newly published book Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models, by Emmanuel G. Blanchard and Daniele Allard (Ed.). IGI Global.

For more information, visit:

http://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-culturally-aware-information/41795

SIFT Scientist, Peggy Wu, Will Be Presenting at HFES

Ms. Peggy Wu will be presenting a paper entitled "The Current Bottleneck for Computer-based Culture Training - Who Cares About Etiquette?" at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) to take place in San Francisco, Sept 27 - October 1, 2010.

SIFT Principal Researcher, Dr. David J. Musliner, Awarded Patent

Dr. David J. Musliner was recently awarded USPTO patent #7774297 System and method for network security, as a part of the CORTEX system for resilient database cyber-security ideas.

Dr. Robert Goldman Co-Authored Two Papers for PAIR-2010

Dr. Robert Goldman co-authored two papers for the AAAI workshop on Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (PAIR-2010). 

The first, "Plan Libraries for Plan Recognition: Do We Really Know What They Model?" was co-authored with  Frodauld Kabanza & Phillipe Bellefeuille from the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec.

The second, "Handling Looping and Optional Actions in YAPPR" was co-authored with Chris Geib from the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Robert Goldman to Chair Workshop at AAAI

SIFT scientist, Dr. Robert Goldman, will be co-chairing the Intelligent Security Workshop at the Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, July 11-15, 2010.

Ms. Peggy Wu to Present at the International Conference of Social Computing (SocialCom 2010)

Ms. Peggy Wu's paper entitled "Interactive PhrasebookTM - Embedding Human Social Dynamics in Language Training" has been accepted for the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2010), August 20-22 in Minneapolis, MN.  The paper will be published by IEEE CS press.  The acceptance rate for this conference is 13%.

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