ICSI

ICSI is a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science.

With its unique focus on international collaboration and through its established international programs, ICSI brings together scientists from all over the world and at all stages of their career to work with established staff researchers, UC Berkeley professors, and their networks of academic, government, and industrial partners. More >>

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Featured project

Delivering Real-Time Multimedia Streams using RaptorQ

This project focuses on reliable low-latency multicast delivery of multimedia streams using the RaptorQ codes specified in IETF RFC 6330.

A software prototype implementation of the ROUTE protocol utilizing RaptorQ will be developed and evaluated for this application.

Funding provided by Comcast Innovation Fund.

Latest News

ICSI in Lawfare Blog

Encryption and Combating Child Exploitation Imagery
October 23, 2019 | Nicholas Weaver, Lawfare Blog (ICSI)

The current systems for detecting these child exploitation images rely on bulk surveillance by private companies, and even the most cursory encryption—with “exceptional access” or no—will eliminate this surveillance. If the government is serious about policy changes designed to keep this detection capability in the face of encryption, however, the best policy is not to weaken communication security but instead to mandate endpoint scanning of images as they appear on phones and computers.

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Recognition

ICSI Researchers Win Best Paper Award at 2019 IEEE Big MM

ICSI researchers Gerald Friedland and Jaeyoung Choi, along with co-authors Martha Larson and Alan Hanjalic, have won the best paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data for their work on “From Intra-Modal to Inter-Modal Space: Multi-task Learning of Joint Representation for Cross-Modal Retrieval." The paper will be avilable to read here once it is published in the coming weeks.

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Featured

Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, ICSI Board of Trustees member and CEA of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the award to Wolfgang Wahlster on the 2nd of October 2019 during a ceremony in Berlin at Bellevue Castle. The Great Cross is the highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals for services to the nation. Wahlster was honored for his outstanding achievements in the field of AI research at DFKI and Saarland University during four decades.

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