SEI Quantum Computing team members Dr. Jason Larkin, Daniel Justice, and Matias Jonsson discuss what Jonsson is learning as a student intern in quantum computing, applications where quantum computing can offer advantages over classical compute

Perspectives on Quantum Computing: Education, Applications, and the Future of the Field

Apr 22nd, 2020 20m 52s

Quantum Computing Intern Update

Apr 15th, 2020 26m 19s

Jason Larkin and Daniel Justice come back with Matias Jonsson to give updates on the Quantum Project. The team continues to search for useful NISQ era quantum algorithms! Watch as Matias shares his findings, the team touches on their strategie

Perspectives on Quantum Computing: Education, Applications, and the Future of the Field

Feb 14th, 2020 19m 19s

Human–Machine Teaming and AI

Jan 31st, 2020 22m 43s

The ability to augment our abilities by partnering with an AI systems to solve complex problems is very compelling. In this Cyber Talk, SEI researchers Carol Smith, Andrew Mellinger, and Ritwik Gupta discuss the exciting challenges and opportu

SEI Artificial Intelligence Engineering Roadmap

Jan 21st, 2020 10m 28s

Join us as Tom Longstaff and Rotem Guttman walk through the Software Engineering Institute’s plans for how to advance the science of artificial intelligence engineering. Topics addressed will include both the opportunities expected and challen

What is Ransomware?

Sep 13th, 2019 21m 6s

Ritwik Gupta and Elli Kanal explain what ransomware is, what it can do to your computer, and how you can help prevent infections using the concept of cyber hygiene. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the files on a computer, prevent

Deepfakes—What Can Really Be Done Today?

Aug 29th, 2019 11m 45s

Rotem Guttman and Zach Kurtz explain what deepfakes are, how they work, and what kind of content it’s possible to create with current techniques and technology. The term “deepfake” refers to the use of machine learning to produce content for

STEM + Diversity = Greater Technology Innovation

Aug 21st, 2019 15m 10s

Tom Longstaff and Grace Lewis discuss how the inclusion of minorities and women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers can promote a nation’s progress by increasing its ability to innovate. The fields of science, technol

Machine and Human Interaction in Aircraft Risk Management

Jul 30th, 2019 17m 33s

Today’s airplanes use automation to assist pilots during flights. Airplane computers often take control of navigation, they have the capability of performing landing and takeoff maneuvers, and they can make decisions over many aspects of the f

Games That Work

Jul 17th, 2019 15m 55s

Humans have been playing games since pre-historic times. Games has been used throughout history not only for enjoyment, but to build skills in a fun and engaging way. Today’s games are no different. Join us as Tom Longstaff, CTO of the Softwar

Efficient NetFlow Partitioning via Minimum Cuts

Jul 2nd, 2019 13m 11s

Ritwik Gupta and Anusha Sinha discuss SEI work on NetFlow that aims to distinguish human-generated flows from machine-generated flows to identify human actors on networks and potential network threats more easily. With millions of flows on a gi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Hype vs Reality

Jun 18th, 2019 20m 36s

Currently, there is an enormous amount of interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence and what these new technologies can create for the present and future. In this SEI Cyber Talk episode, Rotem Guttman and April Galyardt discuss

How to Build a Computer from Scratch

May 29th, 2019 20m 12s

In today’s market, chipmakers design and fabricate chips using supply chains, labor forces, locations, and processes that they don’t always monitor or control as closely as customers with high-security requirements need them to. Without proper

What’s Going on with Near-Term Quantum Computing

May 15th, 2019 15m 51s

In this SEI Cyber Talk episode, Ritwik Gupta, Daniel Justice, and Jason Larkin explain what quantum computing is and how it works, and they discuss the benefits that quantum computing can offer, such as increasing the speed at which computers

How to Fit the Internet into a Box

May 1st, 2019 25m 28s

For the sake of security and safety, exercise environments where cyber operators train often need to be disconnected from real networks. To make these environments more realistic, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) developed software that

Defending Your Computer Network from DNS Hijacking

Apr 16th, 2019 13m 16s

Recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a warning about DNS hijacking and how website owners can protect themselves against it. To explain what DNS hijacking is and how adversaries use it to steal sensitive information, Ell

What’s It Like to Intern at the SEI?

Apr 8th, 2019 16m 40s

In this SEI Cyber Talk, Emerging Technology Center interns Dominick Gurnari and Sandra Sajeev discuss what it’s like to intern at the SEI, a DoD federally funded research and development center. We discuss what’s cool about working in a researc

Learning by Observing via Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Mar 22nd, 2019 15m 33s

This SEI Cyber Talk episode explains how inverse reinforcement learning can be effective for teaching agents to perform complex tasks with many states and actions. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is a formalization of imitation learning, w

What is Cyber Hygiene?

Mar 6th, 2019 15m 12s

This SEI Cyber Talk episode introduces the concept of cyber hygiene, which bears an analogy to the concept of hygiene in the medical profession. Like the practice of washing hands to prevent infections, cyber hygiene addresses simple sets of ac

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