Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Interviewer: Cameron BoozarjomehriWelcome to the third installment of the Knowledge-Driven Podcast. In this series, Software Systems Engineer Cameron Boozarjomehri interviews technical leaders at MITRE who have made knowledge sharing and collaboration an integral...
Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Picture courtesy of UnsplashAuthor: Amanda AndreiCongratulations! You’ve built your self-driving car! Now what? Take it out for a spin on that cross-country trip, watching movies and the landscape as you go from sea to shining sea?Hardly. Assuming you’ve been testing...
Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
So you’ve heard about Symphony™ – MITRE’s automated provisioning framework that rapidly builds secure analytic cells for geospatial, AI, and machine learning applications. Have you tried explaining it to a college student? How about a high school student? How might...
Feb 20, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Presenting awards at the November 2018 Generation AI Catch the Phish challenge: Sponsor Kelvin Wright, President/CEO of Cipher Logix (far left), Gen AI lead Michael Balazs (third from left), challenge designer Eric Harley (second from right), and technical lead Reggie...
Feb 17, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo courtesy of: https://unsplash.com/photos/UnPhQSAVbdkAuthor: Amanda AndreiClinical diagnostic support. Loan approval. Predictive policing and parole.These are all examples of consequential systems, meaning that they are systems with immediate, long-term,...
Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Daniel Josef on UnsplashAuthor: Colin Payne-RogersScience is “the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation.” Since its emergence during the late renaissance, scientific progress...
Jan 7, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo: Pixabay CCO Creative CommonsAuthor: Brian ColderArtificial intelligence (AI) is getting better all the time. You can see it all around you, from Alexa and Siri keeping your appointments and shopping lists, to news articles about self-driving cars, to a program...
Jan 2, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.—Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Science Fiction...
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...
Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Amanda AndreiIs 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...
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 BakerAuthor: Lisa PacittoImagine 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 PixabayAuthor: Amanda AndreiYou 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...
Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Lisa PacittoBlockchain 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-SAAuthor: Dr. Jennifer DeCampOn 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...
May 17, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on UnsplashAuthor: Amanda AndreiAutonomy 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 new...
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 UnsplashAuthor: Amanda AndreiWhen 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 PixabayAuthor: Amanda AndreiWeather 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 expectations...
