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

Identifying semantic components

Identifying potential WMD-related threats before they materialize requires the ability to discover and analyze low-observable WMD-related information from data of all types, including social media.

Press

ICSI in CNET

Your phone talks about you behind your back. These researchers are listening in
February 13, 2020 | Alfred Ng, CNET

"In the end, you're left with a policy that's essentially meaningless because it doesn't describe what's accurately happening," said Serge Egelman, director of usable security and privacy research at the International Computer Science Institute. "The only way to answer that question is going in and seeing what the app is doing with that data."

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News

ICSI Researchers Awarded Prize from French and Spanish Data Protection Agencies

ICSI researchers Abbas Razaghpanah and Naseo Vallina-Rodriguez, along with co-authors Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, and Juan Tapiador, have received two prestigious awards for their work on the article, "An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software." One award is from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and another from the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria.

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Featured

Research by ICSI's Usable Privacy and Security research group was featured on a video series by NBC News called Privacy and Power: Your Digital Footprint.

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