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Dr. Friedman hosts 28th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning

Dr. Friedman hosted the 28th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning in Minneapolis, MN, drawing an international group of researchers to present advances in spatial reasoning, qualitative simulation, and knowledge representation.  The workshop website (http://qr15.sift.net/) lists the full proceedings.

AD ASTRA paper accepted for SOTICS conference in Barcelona in November

Title of the paper: "Towards an Index of Mental Wellbeing in Language The relationship between time orientation, self-focus and mood during prolonged bed-rest through automated analysis of daily journals”

Authors: Schmer-Galunder, S., Wu, P., Rye, J., Ott, T & Miller, C.

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Peggy Wu and Sonja Schmer-Galunder to attend WebSummit 2015 in Dublin

SIFT researchers Peggy Wu and Sonja Schmer-Galunder will attend the WebSummit 2015 in Dublin in November

Peggy Wu featured in Technical.ly article discussing ANSIBLE

Technical.ly, an organization that connects technology communities via journalism and event organization, has published an interview with Peggy Wu discussing SIFT's ANSIBLE project. The article emphasizes how ANISBLE combats social isolation for astronauts by connecting them with friends and family through a shared virtual space.

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PC Magazine interview with ANSIBLE collaborator Dr. Jacki Morie regarding our NASA project

PC Magazine has published an interview with Dr. Jacki Morie of All These Worlds, LLC, a collaborator in building virtual environments for NASA astronauts via the ANSIBLE project. After touring the world rendered within ANSIBLE, the interviewer discusses how ANSIBLE can combat the adverse effects born from extended periods in isolated and confined environments, as astronauts in space flight are prone to experience.

Comic Con 2015

Principal Researcher, Dan Thomsen, will be speaking at San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, July 11th. Mr. Thomsen is the principal investigator for SIFT's program to help veterans suffering from combat stress by creating comics. If you are attending SDCC, stop by to learn how SIFT technology helps beginners create comics and change attitudes about effective therapy.

SIFT and Rockwell Collins present study on certifying adaptive systems for use in the National Airspace

Dr. David Musliner attended the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) to present a summary of our recent NASA-sponsored study identifying gaps and challenges associated with certifying adaptive systems. The study suggests a roadmap for future certification approaches, including considering of a radical new licensing-automation concept.

SIFT presents new dynamic cyber defense technique

Dr. David Musliner attended the International Conference on Digital Society to present our new cyber defense approach that automatically rewrites potentially vulnerable software binaries into "chronomorphic" binaries that change their in-memory instructions and layout repeatedly, at runtime.  This new technique is practically invulnerable to code reuse attacks such as Return Oriented Programming (ROP), and even defeats online reconnaissance methods such as Blind ROP.

Dr. Kuter is appointed as the Editor for Intelligent Systems section in Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science

The SpringerReference Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems in science, engineering and many areas of social, financial and business interactions. It is written for an audience of advanced university undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and professionals in a wide range of fields who must manage complexity on scales ranging from the atomic and molecular to the societal and global.

SIFT to present work on Virtual Environments to support NASA's manned deep space exploration at premiere conference on Virtual Reality!

SIFT and collaborator ATW, LLC will be presenting ANSIBLE - their NASA sponsored work on supporting  manned exploration class missions at Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC) in Laval, part of the 17th International Conferences and Exhibition of Virtual Technologies and Uses.  Their presentation will describe evidence-based strategies for behavioral health delivered through virtual environments.

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