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The languages that defy auto-translate
March 22, 2021
BBC - Imagine you come across a message that could contain life-saving information. But there's a problem: you don't understand a word. You're not even sure which of the world's th...
Do Humans Trust AI Coworkers?
March 02, 2021
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Do humans trust AI assistants? If so, when? If not, why? Do human-AI collaborations fare better than AI or human intuition alone?... To quantify...
Intelligence community is calling on AI to ease work on analysts
January 22, 2021
Federal News Network - The intelligence community awarded four contracts to build out a program that will allow artificial intelligence to tag and track satellite images. The Space...
IARPA Launches Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique Program
January 06, 2021
DNI.gov - The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today a multi-year research effort cal...
Intel Agencies Seek to Perfect Biometric Recognition from Drones
December 11, 2020
Nextgov - The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely used biometric: facial reco...
Translating lost languages using machine learning
October 21, 2020
MIT News - Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost, or “undecip...
An automated pipeline for understanding how the brain is wired
October 02, 2020
Allen Institute - To truly understand the brain, we need a roadmap of how it’s wired. The gold standard for studying the cellular architecture and the connectivity of brain cells i...
Cloud Computing Lets IARPA Carry on During COVID-19
September 01, 2020
SIGNAL - The cloud computing infrastructure at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity allowed the organization to pivot to a new teleworking norm during the pandemic...
How Do We Know If a Virus Is Bioengineered?
August 05, 2020
OneZero - Almost as soon as the coronavirus appeared in the news, so too did speculation that it was purposefully engineered, the result of experimentation at one of several Wuhan...
TRACE App Chosen as TechConnect Defense Innovation Awardee
July 21, 2020
Syracuse University - An application developed by a team based at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and its Center for Computational and Data Science has been s...