The focus of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and other enemies by locking down, monitoring, and destroying weapons and weapons-related materials. They fund a wide range of basic, unclassified research aimed at reducing the threat from weapons of mass destruction. More about […]
For more than fifty years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. DARPA works with academic, corporate and governmental partners and leaders in the scientific and engineering communities to identify new challenges and potential solutions. More about DARPA
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by awarding grants to cultural institutions, such as museums, […]
A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest biomedical research agency in the world. Approximately 83 percent of NIH’s $30.3 billion FY 2015 budget goes to more than 300,000 research personnel at over 3,000 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) distributes grant funds to enhance the ability of regional authorities to prepare, prevent, and respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters. The Department’s Science and Technology Directorate invests in scientific research leading to the development of new and innovative technologies. More about DHS
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Complex phenomena underlie important targets for data analysis such as online and offline human social behavior, medicine, microbiology and ecology, and city operations. Analysis in these domains concerns variables embedded in natural networks of influence and dependence, so models for these variables need to consider their relational structure. Currently understood algorithms for training relational models […]
Given an image and a free-form, natural language question about the image (e.g., “What kind of store is this?”, “How many people are waiting in the queue?”, “Is it safe to cross the street?”), the machine’s task is to automatically produce a concise, accurate, free-form, natural language answer (“bakery”, “5”, “Yes”). Answering any possible question […]
Machines today can perform certain sophisticated but niche tasks quite well (e.g. play chess, play Jeopardy, vacuum our floors, drive autonomously). However, they are far from being sapient intelligent entities. This is partly because they lack “common sense” knowledge — basic knowledge like birds fly, children are afraid of bears, kicking a ball makes it move. […]
The goal of this research project is to develop algorithms for identifying detrimental online social behavior on the Internet. A growing majority of human communication occurs over Internet services, and advances in mobile and connected technology have amplified individuals’ abilities to connect and stay connected to each other. Moreover, the digital nature of these services […]