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"Oh, By the Way," SIFT Awarded $3M DARPA Contract for Mission Planning Support

SIFT, along with teammates University of Maryland (Drs. Dana Nau and Ugur Kuter) and Arizona State University (Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati), have been awarded a 39 month, $2M DARPA contract to develop decision aiding techniques, based on AI planning, to support US military operations planners, under the Oh By The Way (OBTW) program, BAA10-058. The total value of the contract with options exercised is over $3M.   

The primary objective is to develop a tool called S3, that will efficiently perform several key plan analysis functions on mission plans:

New Domain Name: SIFT.NET

SIFT (Smart Information Flow Technologies) has acquired the domain name "sift.net" and our new website address is http://www.sift.net.   If you have visted us from either http://www.sift.info or http://www.siftech.com, you have been redirected to our new primary domain name.  

Dr. David McDonald Co-Authors Article in Fall Issue of AI Magazine

The Fall issue of AI Magazine includes an article co-authored by SIFT researcher, Dr. David McDonald, titled "Project Halo Update – Progress Toward Digital Aristotle".

Dr. Christopher Miller Chairs European Science Foundation Committee

SIFT's Chief Scientist, Dr. Christopher Miller, has been asked to chair the Human Automation Interaction  Committee at the Theseus Conference for the European Science Foundation held in Brussels in October 2010.

SIFT Opening Boston Office

SIFT is pleased to announce the opening of its Boston, MA office. Joining the SIFT team in its Boston location will be Dr. Mark Burstein and Dr. David McDonald.

Dr. Mark Burstein has over 30 years experience in Artificial Intelligence research, primarily in knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation  and plausible reasoning for human-machine collaboration in planning and scheduling.  His research in recent years has focused specifically on a multi-strategy approach to human-guided machine learning of process models.

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

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