Launch of New DHS Center of Excellence: CCICADA
[Decem
ber
2009] DIMACS is now home to the Command, Control, and
Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (
CCICADA), a new
DHS Center of Excellence (COE) that launched with a kick-off event
at Rutgers University on December 9th and 10th. CCICADA’s
researchers will seek to develop the types of data analytic
capabilities that homeland security relies on to ferret out patterns
and draw inferences from massive amounts of unstructured data
contained in books, newspapers, reports, blogs, images, geospatial
data, sensor readings, and audio and video streams. The first day of
the kickoff event emphasized CCICADA research and included
presentations on selected CCICADA research projects such as:
extracting information from multimedia sources; data warehousing;
textual entailment; applying inference to find knowledge gaps; data
privacy; trustworthiness of online documents and data sources;
sequential inspection methods for container inspection; and virtual
worlds. The second day featured a talk by Rutgers President Richard
McCormick, who described CCICADA’s role as “a sobering
responsibility,” and a ceremonial ribbon cutting with DHS
officials. Pictured from left are: DHS Program Manager Joseph
Kielman, Acting Under Secretary for DHS Science and Technology
Bradley Buswell, CCICADA Director Fred Roberts, Director of DHS
University Programs Matthew Clark.
CCICADA brings together the talents of a unique academic-industrial
team, working in partnership with DHS and a wide variety of agencies
in local, state, and federal government, as well as in the private
sector. In addition to Rutgers, CCICADA includes 10 university and 3
industry partner institutions: Carnegie Mellon University; Howard
University; Morgan State University; Princeton University;
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Texas Southern University;
Tuskegee University; University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign;
University of Massachusetts – Lowell; University of Southern
California; Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, AT&T Labs – Research; and
Geosemble Technologies.
[DHS
Press Release] [Rutgers
Press Release]
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