Hand Models
How much fun are you going to have with Howard Gershen’s second post on counting and reasoning? Innumerable amounts. Don’t expect any new rules of thumb, but he does offer some insights where it really counts.—Editor
Designing a Bridge Between Theory and Practice
One practice that Natalie Angier, James Gleick, Jeanne Liedtka, Steven Pinker, and Deborah Tannen have in common…
Knowledge Visualization Part 2: Awakening Your Sleeping Artist
Stanford researcher Carol Dweck has explored the concepts of fixed and growth mindsets at length. Someone operating with…
Down for the Count
When I read Howard Gershen’s riff on counting with his fingers, what came to mind instantly was theory of mind in the way that I heard Alan Alda explain it at George Washington University as a guest speaker for the Smithsonian. We know that words and pictures work...
Many Heads Are Always Better Than One
Time, attention, and craft are among the most beautiful, lasting experiences one professional can share with another. The author, a student investigator at MITRE, reflects …
Remote Tower Idea Gains Traction in Aviation Industry
Tony Colavito leads MITRE’s remote tower efforts—using real-time camera feeds to replicate or enhance the panoramic view air traffic controllers have from an airport tower. MITRE is exploring its application to a variety of airport operations in both the United States...
MITRE Product Libraries Help Staff Capture, Search for, and Manage Products for Sponsors
If staff do fabulous work, but no one can ever reference it again—well, that’s not a good outcome. MITRE always tries to bring our whole company to bear, and our products, when staff know where to find them, bear fruit over and over. MITRE Product Libraries make...
MITRE Innovators Share Research at ATM2017 Seminar
Offering rich technical papers that resonate with international researchers and the chance to collaborate with the world’s aviation innovators, the June ATM R&D Seminar in Seattle, Washington, once again featured MITRE presenters who work on behalf of the Federal...
Managing Language Chaos
Echoing Lewis Carroll, a colleague reminded me once that words mean whatever we choose to have them mean—a practice that might work if we lived in isolation from one another and if nothing that we said or did mattered. Alas, language, like personal devices, seems to...
The 2017 Aviation Forum: Sharing and Advancing Research
MITRE has supported the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mission for more than 50 years and has operated its federally funded research and development center—the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)—since 1990. CAASD provides the FAA with...
Rising to the Challenge: Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems
It’s one thing to talk with your cubemate about a cool technology, another to collaborate companywide to build one. But it’s a whole different level of conversation when you try to talk to the world at large about a technical issue that affects every person on the...
Collaboration has a Sweet Spot in Team Chat Tools
If you could be connected to your teammates at will, but not miss anything if you weren’t AND your communications didn’t require email AND you could search the messages later effortlessly, would you opt in? Daniel Weiss explains why persistent chat is so popular...
Air Traffic Control Association Technical Symposium Looks to the Future
Elly Smith shared the MITRE perspective on time-based management in air traffic control at the 2017 ATCA Technical Symposium. Smith is the Trajectory Based Operations Portfolio Manager in MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD, our Federally...
Knowledge Visualization Part I: Recognizing the Value of Empathic Delivery
Herbert Simon wrote that “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information...
MITRE Shares Remote Tower Work at CANSO Asia Pacific Conference
At the 2017 Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation Conference this past spring, MITRE’s Mimi Dobbs and Juliana Goh participated in a panel discussion on the remote tower concept and its impact on air traffic management. Dobbs and Goh are staff in MITRE’s Center...
Mistakes and Transcendent Paradoxes: Dr. Peter Senge Talks on Cultivating Learning Organizations
Author: Amanda L. AndreiPassionUncertaintyLearningDiversityThe reward of doing work wellThese were only a few of the answers MITRE employees gave to Dr. Peter Senge’s question, “Think of a team you enjoyed being a part of—what made it good?” at our annual Knowledge...
At Xponential 2017, MITRE Staff Share Information on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
As co-chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Science and Research Panel, MITRE’s Ted Lester recently presented an update on the past two years of the panel’s work, at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s (AUVSI) Xponential 2017...
From Surface to Space in Just Two Conferences
MITRE works with the Federal Aviation Administration to enable the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world and to meet the evolving needs of the nation’s airspace. We have supported the FAA’s mission for more than 50 years and have operated...
Playing Games Can Solve Real-World Problems
As the author of this post observes, there’s an emotional component to the exchange of knowledge via games that goes beyond just having fun. Serious games may increase loyalty, engagement, and participation in tasks.—Editor Author: Michael PackPlaying games is one of...