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

Previous Work: Implement and Evaluate Matrix Algorithms in Spark on High Performance Computing Platforms for Science Applications

The overall goal of this project is to enable the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) to run efficiently on the Cray XC30 and Cray XC40 supercomputer platforms. BDAS has a rich set of capabilities and is of interest as a computational environment for very large-scale machine learning and data analysis applications.

Latest News

ICSI in Forbes

The FBI Got Data From A Locked iPhone 11 Pro Max — So Why Is It Demanding Apple Unlock Older Phones?
January 15, 2020 | Thomas Brewster, Forbes

Nicholas Weaver, researcher and lecturer at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute, said that even before the indications that GrayKey would work on the latest iPhones, the FBI's attempts to strongarm Apple into helping amounted to "theatre." He said that Apple had designed its phones so that it wouldn’t be able to provide information if a GrayKey or a competing product couldn’t. "Basically, Apple made a safe where to change the combo you have to unlock the safe, and the FBI is saying 'change the combo' when they know full well you can't change the combo without unlocking the safe first."

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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 available to read here once it is published in the coming weeks.

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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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