August 2021: ISIT's Dawna Coutant and BestWorld's Carolyn Meinel had been combating COVID-19 as participants in IARPA's FOCUS program. We did better than the big modeling teams for the first six months of the pandemic. Then we were about even with the models until Delta arrived. Wow, what a surprise this was to most of us. See what we had forecasted for 2021 as of August 8, 2020 at Covid_forecasts_2021.html

May 2020: ISIT's Carolyn Meinel explains how she used Natural Language Processing to forecast geopolitical questions in a webinar hosted by Basis Technology: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall -- which Country Will Rule them All?

January 2020: The team of ISIT (its effort led by Carolyn Meinel and Dawna Coutant) and KaDSci, LLC (its effort led by Chris Karvetski and Dan Maxwell) came in 4th place in IARPA's Geopolitical Forecasting Competition out of over 100 initial competitors by forecasting 305 questions within just 5 1/2 months: Details here.

Screenshots from BestWorld's upcoming forecasting/social media platform, based upon IARPA's FOCUS platform. Soon this will become the first use of this platform outside the U.S. intelligence community.