Here are a few highlights from November 2012 at ICSI:

• Our new Swordfish project aims to build speech recognition systems for different languages under severe time and data constraints. Read more about it in our press release.
• Sylvia Ratnasamy won the Yahoo! ACE award.
• Gerald Friedland commented on Internet privacy on CBS5.
• Nikki Mirghafori attended the prestigious NAKFI conference.
• A new service, created by Networking and Security Group researchers, checks users' SSL certification. Read about it here.
• On the blog, we started a series of posts about common online privacy misunderstandings. So far, there are three posts: part one, part two, part three. This series will continue in December.
• Alfio Gliozzo gave a talk at ICSI on November 9 about the future of the Watson supercomputer, which won Jeopardy! last year. For those who missed the talk, slides are available.
• We profiled Nelson Morgan (in two parts: read part one, read part two) on the blog. If you are interested in speech research over the past few decades, you'll want to read these.
• Kalle Palomaeki joined the Speech Group as a visiting researcher from Finland.
• New publications for November 2012

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