Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Once every few months, I find myself in a meeting where a problem has just been solved and now some sort of action is needed to put a solution in place. My initial excitement about making real progress is often dampened when a meeting participant offers the suggestion…
Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
You are part of the design team tasked with implementing a modern chip-and-PIN ATM system for your newest customer: a large banking chain. The bank has contracted an outside firm to design the user interface of the ATM and wants to maintain the existing bank administration software they currently use…
Jul 28, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
You may remember the childhood party game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey (or Bunny or Pig—depending on the party theme), where dizzy, blindfolded partygoers are challenged to position a paper tail closest to the correct location…
Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
MITRE loves data. MITRE practitioners are passionate about solving problems using scientific evidence, and this is just as true for social scientists at MITRE as it is for engineers. Here is how MITRE practitioners use data to ensure that our recommendations on strategic communication have the greatest possible impact.
Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Chances are, you’ve interacted with an embedded system today. Did you use a thermostat? How about a car? Or maybe a mobile phone? Or a television, a game console, an elevator, a train, a pacemaker?…
Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Blockchain has essentially created a new type of internet in which information can be widely distributed without relying on traditional centralized architectures…
Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
Our world and workplace are increasingly being aided by artificial intelligence, from personal assistants like Alexa to robots working on assembly lines. But, in most cases, people’s needs must remain front and center if…
Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization
Federal acquisition is easy and straightforward, said no one ever. Rules, regulations, policies, procedures, definitions, requirements, contracts, forms—constantly updated …
Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
On March 12, 2018, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group announced: “We find that our latest neural machine translation system has reached a new state-of-the-art, and that the translation quality…
Jun 25, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Exhibitors included Lead Visualization/Graphics Software Engineer Sacha Panic. His “If there was no gravity” exhibits were grounded in his research of human perception and control of spatial orientation….
May 24, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Knowledge Operations
This award-winning project enables the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to forecast the future aviation fleet in the United States. Previously, having to contract externally for this forecast, the FAA had minimal insight into how the forecast was produced…
May 17, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Autonomy is a broad and complex topic, overlapping with artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, and human domains, with each domain needing to leverage …
May 13, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Intelligent voice assistants like Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are quickly becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Echo adoption …
May 9, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
The Patient Toolkit is a mobile application that helps chronically ill patients and their caregivers better manage their illness …
May 1, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
When you hear the word autonomy, it tends to be in the context of autonomous vehicles – self-driving cars that take passengers wherever they need to go without the need for human input…
Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Intellectually, rationally, we know that the people with whom we speak don’t always understand us and that ascribing fault is counterproductive…
Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
How might we redesign an organization to improve mission outcomes without assuming that reorganization is the right first choice? ….