Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Congratulations! 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?
Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
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 impairment. Or you place a call to your doctor but aren’t able to communicate your needs to the medical staff because your speech is impaired. Or you are a child with autism and being in a classroom and interacting with your teacher and classmates overwhelms you with anxiety.
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….
May 31, 2017 | Blog, Cognitive Assistance, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The 42 staffers and interns who participated in MITRE’s 2017 Hackathon aimed to connect around problems not projects. and connect they did, using Discuss@MITRE, Github, Hackathon.io, Slack, our internal wiki (MITREpedia)–and these are just the tools. The...
May 31, 2017 | Blog, Cognitive Assistance, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
(L-R) Michael Lull, Kevin Long, Grant Pan, Joey Menzenski, and Jared Ondricek show off their award after a 24-hour marathon of hacking (team member not pictured: Jeff Stein). On February 24, 2017, MITRE sponsored an internal hackathon at its McLean, Virginia campus...
May 22, 2017 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
One CAN be the loneliest number if you’re a pilot flying solo. Each year in the United States, about 450,000 private aviators take to the sky sans crew, which can be three times riskier than accompanied operations. Enter Digital Copilot, an intuitive technology that...
Nov 14, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
At his MITRE Innovation Speaker Series talk this past May, Ben Shneiderman talked about his newest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, a guide for junior researchers and a manifesto for senior researchers, academic administrators,...
Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The old computing was just about what computers could do; the new computing is also about what users and organizations can do. Successful technologies are those that are close to being in harmony with the needs of users and organizations. These technologies must...
Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Collaboration systems are traditionally all about enabling users to share information. Usability is paramount: the easier it is for users to share within a tool, the more powerful and successful the tool is considered to be. Somewhat the opposite applies to security systems, as they are often considered most successful when parties are prevented from sharing something. Yet these two considerations, seemingly at odds with each other, are both essential to functioning systems in the real world.
