Smart Information Flow Technologies

About SIFT
Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) is a research and development consulting company specializing in human factors and artificial intelligence. We make the information flow between humans and technology better for both sides -- more efficient, productive, pleasant, and safer.
SIFT employs some of the top researchers in the industry, including Harry Funk, Chris Miller, Robert Goldman, David Musliner, Eric Engstrom, Dan Thomsen, John Maraist, Peggy Wu, and Mike Pelican.
Since our inception in 1999, SIFT employees have published dozens of papers documenting our contributions to the state of the art.

About SIFT Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) is a research and development consulting company specializing in Human Factors and Artificial Intelligence. SIFT's goal is to make the information flow between humans and technology better for both sides -- more efficient, productive, pleasant, and safer. In order to achieve this goal SIFT employs top engineers in the fields of Computer Science and Psychology who specialize in Human Computer Interaction, Interface Design, Human Performance, Artificial Intelligence, Network and Cybersecurity, and Politeness and Etiquette models. Since our inception in 1999, SIFT personnel have extended the state of the art in a wide range of domains from commercial and military flight decks to DoD small unit operations and have authored well over a hundred papers documenting our many contributions to the state of the art in multiple fields. SIFT's highly experienced staff includes: Chris Miller, Robert Goldman, David Musliner, Eric Engstrom, Dan Thomsen, John Maraist, Peggy Wu, Mike Pelican, Jeff Rye, Josh Hamell, Tammy Ott, Harry Funk, and Kip Smith. See our Contact and Location Information to reach us by phone or email, as well as get directions to our offices.	SIFT Principal Researcher, Dr. Dave Musliner, Awarded Patent Submitted by dmoy on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 12:41 Dr. Dave 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 Submitted by lholje on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 10:58 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 Submitted by lholje on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 10:45 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) Submitted by lholje on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 09:15 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%.	SIFT Researcher, Jeff Rye, Awarded Three Patents Submitted by lholje on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 07:28 The United States Patent and Trademark Office has recently awarded SIFT researcher, Jeff Rye, his 6th, 7th and 8th patents for "Systems and methods for changing view perspective in 3-D graphical displays of buildings with stepped rotation" patent number 7,728,853; "Systems and methods for rendering building spaces," patent number 7,705,863; and "Synthetic vision final approach terrain fading," patent number 7,719,483.
SIFT Scientists to Present at ICAPS 2010 Submitted by lholje on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 12:09 Drs. Robert Goldman and John Maraist will present research results at the 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) held in Toronto, Canada, May 12-16, 2010. Their paper describes Shopper, a plan execution engine that facilitates experimental evaluation of plans, and makes it easier for planning researchers to incorporate replanning into plan development and execution. Read more	SIFT Scientist to Chair Session at International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making Submitted by lholje on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 07:28 SIFT scientist, Ms. Peggy Wu, will be chairing a conference session entitled "Cultural Models for Decision Making", at the 1st International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making in Miami, Florida, 17-20 July 2010. More information can be found at http://www.ahfe2010.org/.	SIFT Chief Scientist to Serve on European Space Foundation Project Submitted by lholje on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 15:33 Dr. Chris Miller was invited to serve on the European Space Foundation’s THESEUS project to develop a research roadmap to support human exploration of space. Dr. Miller attended a four-day workshop in Sasbachwalden, Germany, from April 6-9, 2010, where he participated as a member of the Expert Group on Human-Machine Interfaces advising on and prioritizing outstanding research issues associated with deep space missions such as human exploration of Mars or the asteroids.
SIFT Wins Another Air Force Contract! Submitted by alasserre on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 09:43 SIFT has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR titled Decision-Theoretic Automation for Coordinated Space Surveillance (DTACSS, AF093-058).

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