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Dr. Scott Friedman will co-lead the AI and Data Science panel at UMN's National Security Research and Innovation Day

SIFT's Dr. Scott Friedman will co-lead the AI and Data Science panel at the University of Minnesota's National Security Research and Innovation Day (https://research.umn.edu/nsri-day) on February 24, 2025. Alongside four UMN professors, Dr. Friedman will present SIFT's work on explainable AI, provenance, and distributed semantics as they relate to national security objectives.

Dan Thomsen to present at DARPAConnect in Minneapolis

Principal Researcher Dan Thomsen will present at DARPAConnect in Minneapolis, February 25, 2025. With the goal of breaking down barriers to entry, this event is designed to educate, motivate, and inspire new potential performers from small businesses, industry, and academia to engage with DARPA and contribute to growing the national security innovation ecosystem.

SIFT's Lacrosse team wins $2M prize and qualifies for AIxCC Contest Finals

SIFT’s LACROSSE (LLM+AI Cyber Reasoning Security System) placed in the top seven teams in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), winning a two million dollar cash prize and qualifying to compete in the Final round. AIxCC is a two-year competition asking the best and brightest in AI and cybersecurity to design novel AI systems to secure critical software systems. The Final competition, which offers a four million dollar grand prize, will conclude in August 2025, with winners to be announced at DEFCON in Las Vegas.

SIFT now 100% Employee Owned

SIFT recently became a 100% Employee Stock Ownership Program company.
- An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is an employee benefit plan that gives workers ownership interest in the company in the form of shares of stock.
- ESOPs encourage employees to give their all as the company’s success translates into financial rewards.
- They also help staff to feel more appreciated and better compensated for the work they do.

DARPA Picks SIFT for AI Cyber Challenge Competition

SIFT has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as one of seven competitors in the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Small Business Track. SIFT’s LACROSSE (LLM+AI Cyber Reasoning Security System) concept design received a one million dollar award and will compete in the AIxCC semi-final competition at DEF CON 2024 in Las Vegas in August, on the road to the 2025 final competition, which offers a four million dollar grand prize.

SIFT Repeats Clean Sweep of Novelty Track at AI Birds IJCAI

Brag: SIFT repeats its clean sweep of the Novelty Track in the AI Birds competition. Congratulations to David Musliner, Mike Pelican, Steven Johnston, Matt McLure, Christopher Tran and Helen Wauck.

Goldman, Bryce, and DeHaven co-author Synthetic Biology article on Replication and Laboratory Automation

The article "Highly-automated, high-throughput replication of yeast-based logic circuit design assessments" was just published in the online journal Synthetic Biology, published by Oxford University Press.

Mark Berman Joins as New CEO

SIFT is excited to welcome our new CEO, Mark Berman, who joined us last week. Mark's extensive experience leading advanced research groups will help shape SIFT’s next stage of considered growth, as we continue to deliver excellence across our broad research portfolio.

SIFT Sponsors ICAPS 2022

SIFT is proud to sponsor the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), which is the premier forum for exchanging the latest research results on the theory and applications of intelligent planning and scheduling systems that reason and act over extended timeframes to accomplish complex user-assigned tasks. ICAPS 2022 will be held virtually June 13-24, 2022.  See https://icaps22.icaps-conference.org/ for more information about the ICAPS 2022 conference.

Article Published on SIFT's Swarm Control Interface

As part of the Raytheon BBN team for the DARPA OFFSET program, SIFT designed and implemented a Virtual Reality interface for swarm control. With Oregon State University, the interface was evaluated during live flight events throughout the program. Popular Science recently published an article providing some insight into the challenges and accomplishments from the capstone event in November 2021 : "An inside look at how one person can control a swarm of 130 robots"

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