The focus of the Integrated Cognitive- Neuroscience Architectures for Understanding Sensemaking (ICArUS) Program is to understand and model how humans engage in the sensemaking process, both during optimal and suboptimal (biased) performance. Of particular interest are cognitive biases related to attention, memory, and decision making.
Sensemaking refers to the remarkable human ability to detect patterns in data, and to infer the underlying causes of those patterns – even when the data are sparse, noisy, and uncertain.
Web Information
IARPA Neuroscience programs page: iarpa.gov/neuroscience-programs-at-iarpa
ICArUS page: http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/icarus
Program Office page: http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/about-iarpa/incisive-analysis
Contact Information
Program Manager email: rita.bush@iarpa.gov
Phone: (301) 851-7431
Address: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Washington, District of Columbia 20511
Program Office
Office of Incisive Analysis
The Office of Incisive Analysis (IA) focuses on maximizing insights from the massive, disparate, unreliable and dynamic data that are—or could be—available to analysts, in a timely manner. We are pursuing new sources of information from existing and novel data, and we are investigating innovative techniques that can be utilized in the processes of analysis. Our programs are in diverse technical disciplines but have common features:
Involve potential transition partners at all stages, beginning with the definition of success; Create technologies that can earn the trust of the analyst user by providing the reasoning for ...OnAir Post: ICArUS, an IARPA program
