Eureka Café
In this post, Howard Gershen describes how he managed Samuel Johnson’s feat of making “new things familiar, and familiar things new” for colleagues with discriminating palates. Best part of his approach is that you can try it right away, adjusting, of course, to the...
Tackling the Technical Challenge of Getting Lost and Found Indoors
Knowledge sharing and collaboration is a big tent, and any number of ways to practice the craft are available to our staff. One of MITRE’s geospatial teams chose to take their interest in sharing positioning data for reasons of public safety to a convention center in...
Getting the Word Out and Bringing Back the News
MITRE staff are lifelong learners—it’s not hard to engage us in conversation online or in person or both at the same time. Somewhere in the swirl of activity, however, someone needs to capture the connections and outcomes, of course. For MITRE’s Center for Advanced...
How to Pass the Information Quiz
My son recently started middle school and went through a library orientation. At the end of the orientation, the students had to take a quiz to prove that they could find their way around the library. My son failed the quiz.
The New ABCs of Research: Part 2
At his MITRE Innovation Speaker Series talk this past May, Ben Shneiderman talked about his newest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, a guide for junior researchers and a manifesto for senior researchers, academic administrators,...
The New ABCs of Research: Part 1
The old computing was just about what computers could do; the new computing is also about what users and organizations can do. Successful technologies are those that are close to being in harmony with the needs of users and organizations. These technologies must...
Mapping World-Class Capabilities to the Healthcare Domain
Linda Fischetti, John Shottes, Lisa Tutterow, Cynthia Taylor Small, Steve Scott, Marianne Smith, Phil Trudeau, Lara Van Nostrand, and Stacey Zlotnick—who together bring expertise in learning, technology, and healthcare to the endeavor—created an interactive learning...
No More Moore?
Even now, when I think of knowledge sharing, what first comes to mind are containers or interactions: databases, portals, websites, conferences, messaging—electronics and humans working together. I rarely think about what makes our modern electronic interactions...
Read This – Then Stand Up and Take a Walk!
As MITRE’s Health and Wellness Program Manager, Susan Skelly knows what makes MITRE staff tick—literally. Susan’s account highlights her team’s approach to sharing health-related knowledge with staff immersed in their work. How does your company keep your staff...
Chasing down medical data is so 20th century. When medical data follows us, our care improves and so does the system that delivers it.
Have you ever filled out medical forms for yourself or a family member by hand and more than once? I can hear you sighing yes. So you already understand the potential goodness of having your data follow you in the form of a safe, accurate electronic record. Still,...
Don’t present—Collaborate! —in Workspaces Designed to Inspire the Contemporary Knowledge Workforce
Even the perpetually frustrated cartoon character Dilbert might take heart if he were to find himself in a workspace that actually supported creativity in a flexible, casual environment designed for human beings. The fantasy is becoming reality as office design...
Cost FACTS: Using a Social Media Platform to Create a Dynamic Tool for MITRE’s Cost Community and Beyond
If you’ve ever remodeled your kitchen, you know (perhaps to your horror) the potential difference between an estimate and the final bill. It’s why experienced homeowners often warn, “Take that estimate and double it!” Fortunately for taxpayers, there are a number of...
New Generation Warfare: Helping the U.S. Army Create a Synthetic Training Environment for Today’s Way of War
To ensure that our soldiers are well prepared to operate in a complex and dangerous security environment, MITRE is working with the U.S. Army to develop the most advanced training environment in the world. MITRE’s Bruce Gorski and Brian Parrish created a...
Flying Friendlier Skies: Turning Raw Meteorological Measurements Into Meaningful Visualizations that Can Advance Aviation Safety
If you’ve ever experienced weather-related turbulence while traveling on a plane, you know it can be a frightening experience. Understanding how weather events impact air operations can help pilots avoid potentially dangerous situations. The MITRE Corporation’s Center...
Bugs, Trojans, and Rootkits: Fighting Back Against Things that Go Bump in the Network
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception: A Framework for Supporting Active Cyber Defense, by Kristin Heckman, Frank Stech, Roshan Thomas, Ben Schmoker and Alexander Tsow, examines how using denial and deception (D&D) techniques can prevent cyber attackers...
MITRE’s Knowledge Advantage Program: Sharing and Appreciating Innovative Knowledge Work
MITRE award winner Dr. Alex Tsow discusses a first-of-its-kind framework for active cyber defense at MITRE’s Knowledge Advantage Event May 19. (Photo by Jae Robinson)Authors: Donna Cuomo and Jean ColbertSince 2001, MITRE has run an internal, formal Knowledge...
Intranet Organization Pages Make Data Easy to Find and Hard to Miss
MITRE’s intranet team stays on top of trends like responsive design. They also keep us responsive to one another so that we can engage in the reachback that helps us answer our customers’ questions. In this post, the authors describe how MITRE’s Organization Pages...
Pearls of Wisdom: Part 2
This second post on the challenges of retaining corporate know-how in the face of changing work-force demographics reviews an extended conversation among interested MITRE staff. Because it’s always easier to come up with ideas than to implement them, this group...