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...
Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
James Ellenbogen and Ruba Emran. Photo: Andy Cleavenger Author: Russell Woolard Ruba Emran was assigned the task of exploring what she calls a “science fiction idea”—one that’s been around for a while, but whose time, so far as practical application, has not yet...
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...
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 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...
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...
Apr 5, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
Scott Lucas’s rich contribution to an ongoing conversation about how to help our sponsors understand and think about their data adds the caveat that good decisions don’t just come from the data itself, but from what organizations do with it and how they share their...
Jan 29, 2015 | Knowledge Advantage
For Rae Anderson, enterprise data and knowledge management begin with an understanding of what an organization needs to do with that content now and in the future, and ends with a hard look at how well we’ve succeeded in accomplishing our goals. And what we need to...
