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

Multi Modal Video Summarization

ICSI researchers have been working with DAC to identify and acquire datasets that are sufficient for training Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models. They are researching and developing ASR models that are robust to noise, music, babble and reverberation.

Press

ICSI in The Hill

White House and Twitter deny Dutch researcher's claim he accessed Trump's account
October 22, 2020 | Zack Budryk, The Hill

"I would expect at minimum for every account they would log the IP and device info for every new login," Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, told Motherboard. "This would be a 'new device' so it would be trivial for Twitter to verify if true or not."

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News

In Memory: John Ohala

John Ohala

This last week, Professor John Ohala passed away. This was very saddening to many people in the speech and language communities, but particularly to the many friends he had, not only in Berkeley, but all around the world.

Read more about In Memory: John Ohala

Executive Director Search

ICSI is seeking an experienced and collaborative administrative leader with significant management and operational expertise to serve as the next exective director. Learn more and apply.

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