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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Foregrounding Bystanders as Stakeholders in Smart Home Product Design

As computing advances, we are faced with tough decisions like how to balance individual privacy with the potential for innovation. People are often uncomfortable with how data is collected and used, yet we continue to see new data-driven technologies deployed.

Press

ICSI on KTVU

Trojan Shield: FBI's California sting nets more than 500 arrests and seizure of drugs, guns and crypto
June 10, 2021 | Jana Katsuyama, KTVU Fox 2

"It's a brilliant example of taking advantage of social weaknesses with technical exploitation," said Weaver, "Actually building the cryptography to do this would be something that would be a reasonable homework assignment. Doing the integration needed and the social aspects needed to get this adopted and used by thousands of criminals, running millions of dollars in drugs is the true brilliance of this operation."

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Envisioning safer cities with AI

Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments?

A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, a computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community based at the University of California, Berkeley, with researchers from UC Berkeley, the International Computer Science Institute, Stanford, and UCLA, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS -- Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale -- that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city's structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami.

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ICSI Has Moved

ICSI's new mailing address is:

2150 Shattuck Ave, Ste. 1100, Berkeley, CA 94704

Photo credits, left to right: Fortress of Solitude by Flickr user parksdh, photo of Hearst Memorial Mining Building by Flickr user jasonholmberg, Data Center - NCC by Flickr user beraldoleal, Beam Me Up by Flickr user parksdh, Thom Faulders by Flickr user rocor, The Bouncing and Bending of Light by Flickr user parksdh, all licensed by Creative Commons BY-NC.

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