2005/06/01: Minneapolis, MN - Adventium Labs, a Minneapolis-based non-profit research and development lab, has named Todd Carpenter as a Research and Development Systems Engineer.  Mr. Carpenter has over 19 years of systems development and engineering experience.  His work has covered a wide spectrum of domains, including medical, military and commercial avionics, space, and petrochemicals...

2005/05/17: The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce has recognized Adventium Labs with a Small Business Award of Excellence, called the Duebner Award - named after the St. Paul inventor of the shopping bag with handles, in the Emerging Business category. These annual awards honor small businesses that are judged by their peers to be active in community activities, promote and support diversity in the workplace, and adhere to ethical business practices. The awards will be presented at the 24th Annual Small Business Awards of Excellence Luncheon on May 24 2005.

2005/04/04: Adventium was awarded a two-year contract from AFRL as part of AFRL's Cyber Defensive and Offensive Operations Technology (CDOT) solicitation. Led by Dr. Tom Haigh, the project will develop a system that actively determines how best to configure, deploy, and combine the output of existing sensor and detection technologies into a broader attack recognition and diagnosis system for complex, large-scale computer networks.

2005/03/22: Three projects involving Adventium Labs researchers were presented at the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series March 21-23, 2005 at Stanford University as part of the "AI Technologies for Homeland Security" session. The topics included a talk by Dr. Mark Boddy of Adventium on "Automated Vulnerability Analysis Using AI Planning" that discussed results of Adventium's ARDA-funded insider threat project. See PDF for more. Dr. Robert Goldman of SIFT presented a poster titled "Collaborative Filtering for Community Threats" that discussed our joint research for DHS. Finally, John Phelps of Honeywell discussed foundational research for the DARPA-funded COORDINATORS program on which Adventium Labs is a teammate. See Agenda for the full program.

2005/02/23:  Adventium Labs has been nominated for a Small Business Award of Excellence, a Duebner Award (or, "Dube" for short), given by the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce.

2005/02/14: Work on the Honeywell-led team for the DARPA Coordinators program officially began this month. The goal of this four-year program is to create distributed intelligent software systems that will help fielded military units adapt their mission plans as the situation around them changes and impacts their plans. Led by Dr. Mark Boddy, Adventium will provide support and design leadership in several aspects of the program, including designing extensions to the intelligent agent representation and mappings from this representation to more formal constraint-based reasoning representations.

2004/12/20: Charlie Payne will be serving as the program co-chair for the 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) to be held December 5-9, 2005 in Tucson, Arizona.

2004/11/20:  Accompanied by eight counterparts with combined accreditations of five doctorate and eight masters degrees in a humble downtown office space, Adventium Labs' founder and CEO Dr. Bonnie Bennett says her leap from academia to the nonprofit/private sector two years ago has been an exciting adventure...

2004/04/22:  Please see external link at Upsize Magazine.

2004/01/09: Minneapolis, MN - Adventium Labs today released a report designed to address immediate and future threats to the nation's power grid and other critical infrastructures through 2014.  Reflecting input from 35 of the nation's top industry, academic, and governmental experts, the report is the direct result of an Oct. 2003 workshop held in Minneapolis and sponsored by Adventium Labs and the National Science Founation...