HRL Laboratories’s Information and Systems Sciences lab (ISSL) conducts groundbreaking research in neuromorphic computing, robotic manipulation, brain-machine interfaces, trusted computing, multi-sensor object recognition, and automated knowledge and content extraction.

The Center for Neural and Emergent Systems (CNES), part of ISSL, is dedicated to exploring and developing an innovative neural & emergent computing paradigm for creating intelligent, efficient machines that can interact with, react and adapt to, evolve, and learn from their environments.

 

Web Information

HRL website: http://www.hrl.com/

ISSL pages: http://www.hrl.com/laboratories/labs_issl.html

CNES pages: http://www.hrl.com/laboratories/cnes/cnes_main.html

 

Contact Information

Email: HRLcontracts@hrl.com

PI for ICArUs and KRNS programs: Rajan Bhattacharyya

Phone: 310.317.5000

Address: HRL Laboratories, LLC 3011 Malibu Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265-4797

HRL Laboratories

Our Mission

Strengthen our LLC Members and enhance the mission of our government and commercial customers through the development and application of world-class science, technology and engineering.

Our Vision

Lead the nation in our chosen competencies. Within those competencies be the foremost applied science and engineering capability of our LLC members, anticipating, innovating and delivering solutions for their most challenging problems.

Be a premier destination for our nation’s very best scientists and engineers.

Our Focus

Enhance and expand our understanding of our LLC Members’ strategies, plans, and needs; and continuously improve the transition of our solutions into our LLC Members’ products.

Enhance and expand our presence in the broad national security ...

Mitre Corporation role in IARPA’S ICArUs program was the Test and Evaluation (T&E) of the neural-computational models developed by several teams of performers. Mitre performed these tasks through its National Security Engineering Center (NSEC).

Mitre also explored the potential for transition of T&E products beyond ICArUS to practical applications and future research in the Intelligence Community.

 

 

Web Information

NSEC Web pages: http://www.mitre.org/centers/national-security-and-engineering-center

Sensemaking book: http://www.mitre.org/publications/all/sociocultural-behavior-sensemaking

 

Contact Information

Email: https://register.mitre.org/site/contact/

Phone: (703) 983-6000

Address: 7515 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102-7539

 

About National Security Engineering Center

The Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community look to MITRE’s National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) for technical leadership and systems thinking to address complex challenges.

Our sponsors turn to MITRE for excellence in technical areas such as sensors, electronics, digital systems, IT, and cybersecurity. These fields lie at the core of the NSEC’s capabilities. But NSEC, like MITRE itself, is about more than technology. Our engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and experts in an array of disciplines bring deep technical knowledge and analytic understanding of the sponsors’ missions and operations. This diverse talent pool allows our sponsors to benefit from our widespread knowledge, innovation, and institutional memory.

Moreover, MITRE doesn’t manufacture products or compete with industry. As an FFRDC sponsored by the Defense Department, NSEC helps the government make choices based ...

 

Neuroscience Program (NSP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an interdisciplinary program of study and research leading to the doctoral degree. Other neuroscience related programs  include the Beckman Institute and numerous research centers.

The Beckman Institute’s research is focused around four research themes: Biological Intelligence, Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction, Integrative Imaging, and Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures. Researchers come from psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and bioengineering.

Web Information

Neuroscience Program (NSP): http://neuroscience.illinois.edu/

Beckman Institute: http://beckman.illinois.edu/

Research Centers and Programs: http://research.illinois.edu/research-illinois/research-centers-and-programs

Beckman Institute

The Institute’s primary mission is to foster interdisciplinary work of the highest quality, transcending many of the limitations inherent in traditional university organizations and structures. The Institute was founded on the premise that reducing the barriers between traditional scientific and technological disciplines can yield research advances that more conventional approaches cannot.

Beckman Institute research is focused around four research themes:

Biological Intelligence Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction Integrative Imaging Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures

The Beckman Institute is also home to strategic initiatives that seek to unify campus activities in their respective areas:

Health: Attitudes, Biology, Information, Technology, Society Illinois Language & Literacy Initiative Strategic Initiative on Imaging Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy

Researchers from University of Illinois departments as far-ranging as psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and bioengineering ...

The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) BrainHub initiative spans across CMU’s colleges and schools, involving nearly 50 faculty and over 150 scientists.

A major facet of this initiative is increasing collaboration among faculty from disciplines such as computer science and engineering with those taking biological and behavioral approaches to neuroscience. Linking brain science to behavior via the application of machine learning, statistics, and computational modeling will be a hallmark of CMU’s efforts, along with commercialization of the new technologies and applications.

 

Web Information

Brain Hub:  cmu.edu/research/brain

Neuroscience Programs and Centers:  cmu.edu/neuro/

 

Contact Information

Email: gbalbier@andrew.cmu.edu Phone: 412-268-9718 Address: Brain Hub 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Executive Director: Gerry Balbier Facutly Experts

 

Research Areas

Sharing the World’s Brain Research Data

Researchers around the world are collecting vast amounts of data from the brain at a rapid pace. We believe that much can be learned by combining the global collection of data. We are creating new tools that will index, aggregate and share this global data, making it accessible in powerful new ways. Faculty experts in this area »

Mapping & Exploring the Interconnectivity of the Brain and Behavior

The brain is made up of billions of neurons, which make billions of connections to communicate information. While scientists have been ...

As part of the IARPA SHARP program,Honeywellis leading a team of top researchers from Northeastern University, Oxford University, and Beth Israel Dea­coness Med­ical Center.

The goal of the SHARP program is to develop, demonstrate, and validate methods to augment intelligence analysts’ adaptive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities (ARP) and to enhance their ability to reason through complex problems common to the intelligence community.

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Article

Honeywell researchers measure brain waves

AOPA by Sarah Deener Dec. 12, 2013

After a long flight in instrument conditions, a commercial flight crew begins a challenging approach, and the pilots’ attention suddenly turns to a landing gear light malfunction. With the autopilot engaged in cruise, a pilot loses focus and misses a pertinent radio call. Danger can lurk at either end of the workload spectrum: Pilots are more liable to make errors when overloaded or underworked and inattentive.

But what if a system could tap into pilots’ brain waves to automate tasks when they’re overwhelmed and snap them out of it when their attention drifts? Honeywell Aerospace researchers have used electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to quantify brain activity and cast light on when someone is ...

As part of the IARPA SHARP program, Charles River is leading a team of top researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of New Mexico, and Harvard University to test the effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Robust, ARP-Focused Customized Learning and Enhancement, or MIRACLE.

The goal of the SHARP program is to develop, demonstrate, and validate methods to augment intelligence analysts’ adaptive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities (ARP) and to enhance their ability to reason through complex problems common to the intelligence community.

 

Web Information

Charles River Analytics website: https://www.cra.com/

 

Contact Information

Email: https://www.cra.com/contact-us

PI for SHARP program: Victoria Romero

Phone: 617) 491-3474

Address: Charles River Analytics Inc 625 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

 

About Charles River Analytics

Since 1983, Charles River Analytics has been delivering intelligent systems that transform our customers’ data into mission-relevant tools and solutions to support critical assessment and decision-making. Charles River continues to grow its technology, customer base, and strategic alliances through research and development programs for the DoD and the Intelligence Community, addressing a broad spectrum of mission areas and functional domains, including: sensor and image processing, situation assessment and decision aiding, human systems integration, and cyber analytics. These efforts have resulted in ...

Dr. Francisco Pereira, staff scientist at Siemens Healthcare, leads the IARPA KRNS team which comprises 12 people across five institutions (Siemens, Princeton University, MIT, MGH and Harvard University).

Their models are based on learning distributed representations of individual words from text corpora, as well as resources such as FrameNet and WordNet, and using recursive neural network approaches and other techniques to assemble them into the representation of a sentence. The models are validated by decoding mental content from brain imaging data acquired with our own experiments.

 

 

Web Information

Siemens Healthcare website: http://usa.healthcare.siemens.com/

 

Contact Information

Email: communications.ct@siemens.com

PI for KRNS programs: Francisco Pereira

 

About Siemens Healthcare in US

Siemens Healthcare develops innovations that support better patient outcomes with greater efficiencies, giving providers the confidence they need to meet the clinical, operational and financial challenges of a changing healthcare landscape. As a global leader in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare information technology, we have a keen understanding of the entire patient care continuum—from prevention and early detection to diagnosis and treatment.

 

Combination of Tim® 4G’s integrated coil technology and Dot – the next movement in MRI – MAGNETOM Skyra

IARPA KRNS program

The main goal of the project is to build a model of how semantic ...

eCortex is a research and development company dedicated to the idea that the most important advances in artificial intelligence will come from a deep understanding of the mechanisms in the human brain.

eCortex performs basic and applied research for defense and intelligence agencies in programs where the challenges are broad enough to defy narrow algorithmic solutions. Ultimately, we aim to develop commercial products for robotics and analysis of image, video, and other data.

 

Web Information

Website: http://www.e-cortex.com/

 

Contact Information

Email address: seth.herd@e-cortex.com

Location:  Boulder, Colorado

 

About

The company was founded in 2006. It is the exclusive commercial licensee of the Emergent neural network simulator and IDE, along with models of the human visual system originally developed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Randall C. O’Reilly, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

Dr. O’Reilly is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has authored over 50 journal articles and an influential textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on biologically-based computational models of learning mechanisms in different brain areas, including hippocampus, prefrontal cortex & basal ganglia, and posterior visual cortex. He has received significant funding from NIH, NSF, ONR, and DARPA. He is a primary author of the Emergent neural network simulation environment. O’Reilly completed a postdoctoral ...