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May 25, 2023

Students Lead Spring Semester Projects that Support Intelligence Analysts

Students play a vital role in research at the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. From design to computer science and data prioritization, we’re spotlighting four of this year’s research projects at…

Dec 5, 2022

Taming Deep Learning: Faster and Cheaper

This work was funded by the NCSU LAS: Laboratory for Analytics Sciences, 2022. Summary: A “router-based” reasoning oracle can tell when not-so-hard predictions can be handled by a simple/fast/cheap linear model; or…

Dec 5, 2022

LAS Senior Design Engagement

Since the mid-1990s, undergraduate students majoring in engineering and computer science at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have been required to complete a capstone research project during the final semester…

Dec 5, 2022

What Happens When Design Students Innovate for Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence analysts must make sense of never-ending waves of information that crash over them from every direction. Understanding how best to navigate such a vast, ever-changing ocean of data with…

Dec 5, 2022

Communicating Intel to Decision-Makers: Toward the Integration of Graphs in Reports

Melanie Bancilhon, R. Jordan Crouser, Alvitta Ottley Intelligence analysts’ roles include analyzing reports, identifying important information relevant to the current state of affairs, and communicating their takeaways. These reports are…

Dec 5, 2022

Hybrid Teams and Purposeful Levels of Automation

Drs. Judy and Rob Johnston, Johnston Analytics Introduction.  With the evolution of machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the increasing recognition of the assistance they can provide to…

Dec 5, 2022

Sound Event Detection 

Triaging Non-Speech Sounds in Audio Content Tina Kohler, Patti Kenney, Sean Lynch, Jacque Jorns The Pitch Over the past year the LAS Sound Event Detection (SED) team explored whether we…

Dec 5, 2022

Design Approaches to Research一Tools and Techniques (DARTT): Applications to LAS/IC Projects

Sharon Joines, Hongyang Liu, Matt Schmidt, Lori Wachter Background One of LAS’s goals is to expose LAS members to varied approaches for problem identification, exploration and synthesis, and solution and…

Dec 5, 2022

Why build a model deployment service (MDS)?

Troy West, Jascha Swisher, Mike Green, Brent Younce, Aaron Wiechmann, Ryan Bock Our original intentions and discussions on a model deployment service focused heavily on how we could simplify and…

Dec 5, 2022

What is really going on here? Abductive reasoning in intelligence analysis

Bolstering human machine teaming with support for narrative abduction Tim van Gelder, Director, Hunt Lab, University of Melbourne Note: This post represents one perspective on the project. Some project team…