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February 2013 Highlights

Friday, February 1, 2013

We held our annual open house on Thursday, February 14 in conjunction with the UC Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium. Check out
- Photos from the event;
- Slides of talks given by group directors; and
- A demo presented by DAAD scholar Daniel Goehring
At the Open House, we announced two new research groups, one to focus on multimedia analysis and retrieval and one to nurture nascent research efforts that don't fit in elsewhere at ICSI. Read more in the press release.
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, a member of the board of trustees, received the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.
We hosted two talks at ICSI:
- Alex Acero, the director of the Conversational Systems Research Center at Microsoft Research, gave a talk titled "Deep Neural Networks for Speech Processing."
- Kalle Palomaeki, who is visiting ICSI on our Finnish visiting program, gave a talk titled "Noise Robust Speech Recognition Activities in the Aalto Speech Group Based on Feature Enhancement and Uncertainty Modeling Approaches."