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Scott McComas Joins SysAdmin Staff

December 2, 2003
ICSI has a new permanent staff member. Scott McComas joined the SysAdmin Staff at the beginning of December.

Sven Behnke and Klaus Wehrle Win Aktionsplan Informatik

November 30, 2003
Former ICSI visiting researchers, Dr. Sven Behnke and Dr. Klaus Wehrle of Germany, were two of seven award winners of the "Aktionsplan Informatik" (action plan computer science) from the DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgaemeinschaft, a German research foundation comparable to NSF. The grant will allow young researchers to start a junior research group in Germany. Dr. Behnke will be working on the building of humanoid robots. Dr. Wehrle proposed to build a toolkit for network protocol development.

BFOIT Awarded Elizabeth and Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Grant

November 13, 2003
BFOIT, the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, part of BCIS, has been awarded a renewable grant from the Elizabeth and Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, which will allow the program to continue. BFOIT had a very successful program during the summer of 2003, expanding to a year round program with 25 high school students, and has plans to double the size to include 50 students next summer, and will include middle school students as well. BFOIT also has plans to start a program at a second location in San Jose.

AnnaLee Saxenian Appointed Faculty Associate

November 1, 2003
ICSI has appointed a new Faculty Associate. AnnaLee Saxenian, of UCB's City and Regional Planning Department, will be working with BCIS on Silicon Valley development.

Birth of Hayden George Hodson

October 24, 2003
Hayden George Hodson was born at 4:22 p.m. on Friday, October 24, 2003 weighing in at 8.1 pounds and 21 inches long. The proud parents are ICSI's XORP researcher, Orion Hodson and his wife, Heather. Hayden is the couple's first child.

Speech Group Receives NSF Grant

October 22, 2003
Speech Group receives NSF grant "Modeling Idiosyncrasies in Speaking Behavior." Barbara Peskin of ICSI's Speech Group will head a project to improve speaker recognition through incorporation of higher-level features - e.g. derived from prosody, pronunciation patterns, word usage, even distinctive laughs - to augment traditional models that rely on short-term 10-20 msec frames of speech.

Networking Group Participating in $5.3 million NSF Grant

October 20, 2003
Researchers in ICSI's Networking Group, led by Vern Paxson, will be participating in a $5.3 million NSF grant to fund cybersecurity research. They will be collaborating with UC Davis, Pennsylvania State University, and Purdue University.

Vern Paxson Receives NSF Grant to Improve Bro Intrusion Detection

October 1, 2003
Vern Paxson of ICIR received a grant from NSF for "Viable Network Defense for Scientific Research Institutions." This project tackles the problem of how to defend a site from Internet attacks when the site requires broad, open access to the Internet to perform its mission. The research will be done using the Bro intrusion detection system at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. The goal is to enhance Bro's capabilities and applicability to operational use, to foster a Bro user community that will facilitate the use of Bro at research institutions, and to develop new network-based intrusion detection algorithms.

AI Group Receives DARPA Grant

September 30, 2003
The Artificial Intelligence Group has received a grant from DARPA to continue work on the FrameNet project.

Srini Narayanan Awarded Subcontract from the University of Texas

September 15, 2003
Srini Narayanan of the Artificial Intelligence Group has been awarded a subcontract from University of Texas at Dallas for work on an ARDA project "Causal and Temporal Reasoning for Question Answering Systems."

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