University of Mississippi
Dr Carl Jensen, Director

 

Director's Welcome

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope it will spark your interest in the exciting research and teaching offered by our Center. Read more...

Academics

The ISS Minor is unique, in that students must apply for the minor, and maintain a 3.0 GPA. Read more...

Academic Overview

Courses

Requirements

Student Overview

Research Training

Internship Coordinator

Students accepted into each CISS cohort are required to complete an internship at an agency within the IC or an organization involved in research or other intelligence-related function. The CISS Internship Coordinator guides students through the internship application process and internship etiquette.


 

CISS Computer Lab

The Center boasts a high-speed text scanner and printer, as well as secure wireless access and a dedicated computer lab in the Center library. In this lab, students have access to cutting-edge industry software, which they can use for their homework, capstone projects and investigations.

Listed alphabetically below:

i2 Analyst's Notebook, TextChart, iBase (i2, Inc.)

http://www.i2inc.com/

i2 Inc. is the leading worldwide provider of visual investigative analysis software for law enforcement, government, military, intelligence and commercial organizations. i2's integrated suite of products enables investigators and analysts to quickly understand complex scenarios and volumes of seemingly unrelated data, perform analysis and communicate the results.

CrimeLink (Precision Computing Intelligence)

http://www.pciusa.us/Crimelink.aspx

CrimeLink™ is a visual investigative analysis tool designed to assist analysts and investigators with compiling large amounts of seemingly independent and unrelated data into orderly, understandable, and comprehensible graphical analytical products

Palantir Government (Palantir)

http://www.palantirtech.com/
Analysis blog: http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog

Palantir LogoPalantir Government is a platform for information analysis. Palantir was designed for environments where the fragments of data that an analyst combines to tell the larger story are spread across a vast set of starting material. Palantir provides flexible tools to import and model data, intuitive constructs to search against this data, and powerful techniques to iteratively define and test hypotheses. With Palantir, an analyst can go all the way from an initial tasking to a final product in hours or days, rather than weeks.

VisuaLinks, Digital Information Gateway
(Visual Analytics, Inc.)

http://www.visualanalytics.com

Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI) is a leading provider of data analytics, decision support, and information sharing solutions for investigating money laundering, financial crimes, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, border security, embezzlement, and fraud in domestic and international commercial and government markets. The Visual Analytics Data Clarity Suite is the gold standard for unparalleled, enterprise-level analytics for organizations requiring the ability to integrate, access, and analyze any size and type of internal, shared, and/or public data stores. VAI's tools are delivering unprecedented results to the analytical community and satisfying the need for better and faster technologies for data analysis and investigative support around the globe. More information on Visual Analytics can be found at www.visualanalytics.com.