Document Forensics Laboratory

The Document Forensics Laboratory is a joint venture by the Department of Applied Information Technology and Department of Statistics. Funded by the Gannon Technology Groups, LLC, the principal goal is to use a fusion of advanced statistical analysis techniques and information technology to determine the extent to which handwriting can be used as an accurate biometric identifier. Of particular interest are scripts other than Latin. The work of the laboratory has important consequences in national security.

Learning Agents Center

The Learning Agents Center (LAC) conducts fundamental and experimental research on the development of learning agents for real-world problems, and supports teaching in the areas of intelligent agents, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, and artificial intelligence. Major research areas include instructable agents, development of knowledge bases and knowledge-based agents, multistrategy learning and knowledge acquisition, domain modeling, knowledge representation, intelligent tutoring systems, natural language processing and cooperative problem solving.

Center for Secure Information Systems

The Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) is recognized as one of the top national research and academic security centers in the United States. CSIS differentiates itself from other centers by working in a broad spectrum of security topics and issues.