This project is being led by KSL, and includes research teams at the T. J. Watson Research Center of the
IBM Corporation, and the Pacific Northwest Division of the Battelle Memorial Institute. The team is designing and
implementing a system of automated associates called KANI (Knowledge Associates for Novel Intelligence). The KANI
system is intended to actively support and participate in intelligence analysis tasks by
- helping an analyst identify, structure, aggregate and visualize task-relevant information;
- enabling an analyst to construct explicit models of alternative
hypotheses (scenarios, relationships, causality, etc.); and
- actively assisting an analyst in analytical reasoning such as hypothesis refinement, contradiction recognition,
and assumption testing.
Our objective is to create technologies that accelerate and deepen the analytical
process as it is being orchestrated and directed by the analyst.
Research Team
KSL
Richard Fikes
Deborah McGuinness
Selene Makarios
Robert McCool
Karl Heuer
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
Cynthia Chang
Robert Millar
Battelle
Dave Thurman
Alan Chappell
Andrew Cowell
Liam McGrath
Patrick Paulson
IBM
Dave Ferrucci
Christopher Welty
J. William Murdock
Roy Byrd
Rie Ando
Branimir Boguraev
Mary Neff
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