Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
The Phishers team—representing University of Maryland College Park, Poolesville High School, and edX—tested Random Forest, Ada Boost, and Decision Tree classification during the Catch the Phish challenge at Universities at Shady Grove. Photo: Eny Hathaway Authors:...
Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Amanda Andrei Is artificial intelligence (AI) the way of the future… or already the way of the present? Applications of AI surround us in our daily lives – ever use an app to get around traffic? How about checking your social media feeds? Or shopping online?...
Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo courtesy of Pixabay Author: Cameron Boozarjomehri When you look at the image above, what you see is just a wolf in the snow. How do you know it’s a wolf in the snow? Well, I could go off on a long tangent about how your eyes receive light that your brain...
Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo Credit: Michael Baker Author: Lisa Pacitto Imagine waiting 30 minutes or longer to get through to a customer service center and when your call is finally answered, you can’t understand what the service representative is saying because you have a hearing...
Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Image courtesy of Pixabay Author: Amanda Andrei 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...
Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Lisa Pacitto Blockchain has essentially created a new type of internet in which information can be widely distributed without relying on traditional centralized architectures. Media coverage of Bitcoin, the digital currency (or cryptocurrency) for which...
Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo licensed under CC BY-NC-SA Author: Dr. Jennifer DeCamp 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...
May 17, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei Autonomy is a broad and complex topic, overlapping with artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, and human domains, with each domain needing to leverage systems engineering concepts to make sense of and use...
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 has increased by three hundred percent in the past year alone. These on-demand, cloud-based voice services can tell us the weather,...
May 1, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Franck Veschi on Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei 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. But autonomy extends to...
Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
MITRE believes that data is the next medical innovation in health. How might connecting people and data reinvent the health experience? To find out, a team of researchers developed Home Assessments for Prompt Intervention (HAPI), a serious game that uses Microsoft...
Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Pixabay Author: Amanda Andrei Weather systems. Electrical grids. Stock markets. The Internet. All of these are complex and interconnected systems that may be susceptible to what are called black swans – catastrophic, hard-to-predict events that defy...
Mar 13, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Public domain photo from Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei In earlier posts, my colleagues and I discussed defining, applying, and coordinating data science at MITRE, as well as the technical and cultural challenges that data scientists and teams encounter. I had the...
Mar 11, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Knowledge Advantage, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
An electronic flight bag (EFB) may typically be used to replace pilots’ paper charts, but with some new developments it could start to be more of a cognitive assistant. MITRE researchers are not only developing and licensing technology that moves the EFB concept...
Mar 1, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
There’s thinking about, talking about, and doing, and they all have a time and place in any domain. With data science, though, doers rule. A big bucket of ostensibly random stuff in the hands of a skilled practitioner becomes the stuff of art. Yup, even data about a...
Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
In her previous post, Technical Challenges in Data Science, Amanda Andrei discussed the need for technical vigilance with experts Dr. Elizabeth Hohman, statistician and group leader within MITRE’s Department of Data Analytics, and Dr. Eric Bloedorn, senior principal...
Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
As Amanda Andrei mentioned in her previous post, Defining, Applying, and Coordinating Data Science at MITRE, we are generating 2.5 million terabytes of data a day, and the need for data science teams and individual contributors is crucial for moving what we find up...
Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Amanda L. Andrei For a long time I have thought I was a statistician, interested in inferences from the particular to the general, wrote mathematician John Tukey in his 1962 article, “The Future of Data Analysis.” But as I have watched mathematical statistics...
Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
It’s both less scary and more thrilling than you might think—and we’ve been living with nascent versions of machine learning for some time in the form of cognitive assistance tools. Spellcheck, for example, and the suggestions for replies that Gmail now displays are...
Jun 29, 2017 | Awards, Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
With the increasing demand for a diversity of new entrant operations come a variety of economic efficiency challenges. A MITRE team collaborating with the Federal Aviation Administration and industry experts is developing technology to make it easier for FAA’s air...
