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Dr. Craig Lawrence Named Interim ARLIS Executive Director
Dr. Regli stepped down from the role after serving for five years.
2023 RISC Interns: In Their Own Words
ARLIS's 2023 Research for Intelligence and Security Challenges (RISC) summer internship program ended Aug. 3 after interns spent 10 weeks working on a variety of real-world issues across 48 projects.
U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Official to Lead ARLIS Research
Dr. Benjamin Knott has been named Director of Research for UMD’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.
Arlis Researchers Find a Way to Measure the "Cute" Factor in Social Media Content
Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian, sells toys. ISIS fighters recruit followers by posing with kittens and cats. Japanese corporations and other entities use Kawaii culture and yurukyara mascots to promote products and initiatives. Smokey Bear preached fire safety for the U.S. Forest Service.What do all these things have in common? Using the power of cuteness to influence, sell, project a softer image, or motivate the public to social good.
No AI in Teams
The use and creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have steadily increased over the past few decades. Many AIs are created to reduce labor costs, generate solutions faster than humans, and perform tasks beyond human capabilities. Often AIs are designed to work in human teams.
Broadband Wireless Networks: A New Critical Technology
As the youngest UARC, ARLIS is concerned with some of today’s national security grand challenges. Sociotechnical factors driving influence, belief, trust, identity, and behavior now present themselves with new urgency as domains for competition, contention, and active conflict. It is no accident that this has happened in parallel with the growth of broadband networks. It is over these networks that the sociotechnical interactions critical to many ARLIS mission areas take place. Accordingly, ARLIS maintains a a practice in broadband network systems.