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Krste Asanovic Named ICSI External Fellow

June 17, 2004
ICSI alum Krste Asanovic, a member of the Computer Science faculty at MIT, was selected to become an External Fellow of ICSI in June, 2004. Professor Asanovic said that he is delighted to accept the invitation and looks forward to future collaborations with ICSI researchers.

Dr. Barry Chen Receives Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

May 19, 2004
Congratulations to Dr. Barry Chen who received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in May, 2005. While working toward his doctorate, Barry was also a graduate student researcher with ICSI's Speech Group. Congratulations, Dr. Chen.

Nicholas Weaver Quoted in New Scientist

May 14, 2004
Nicholas Weaver, network security expert at ICSI was quoted in an article on worm attacks on instant messaging in New Scientist. The article appears on page 26 of the May 14, 2005 issue, and is also available online here >>

Ion Stoica Receives Presidential Award

May 7, 2004
President Bush announced in May, 2004 that ICSI Faculty Associate Ion Stoica is one of 57 recipients of the 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More. >>

ICSI Trustee Selected by American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 3, 2004
ICSI Trustee Shankar Sastry has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). He is one of seven UC Berkeley professors selected this year.
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Steve Weber's New Book Published

April 19, 2004
Professor Steve Weber, one of ICSI's Faculty Associates, has recently had a book published by Harvard University Press called The Success of Open Source. Excerpts from the book are available on the Global Business Network website. There is also an article about the book in the April 19, 2004 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Weber's book discusses the growing popularity of open-source software, such as the Linux operating system, and says that "Open source is not just for hackers. It's a new way of organizing people to create complex products in a knowledge-based economy."

XORP Featured by CNET News

April 19, 2004
XORP researcher Orion Hodson was quoted extensively in a CNET News.com article by Marguerite Reardon on April 19, 2004. In the article, which discusses whether or not XORP will become a threat to commercial routers like those made by Cisco Systems, Hodson says that "We want XORP to be the Linux of routing." However, he also points out that the intention "is not to be in competition with Cisco or Juniper (Networks), per se, but if it can be used to build a router that saves someone money, then that's good too.

ICSI Cybersecurity Research Featured on Creative Match

April 15, 2004
ICSI cybersecurity research by Vern Paxson and Nicholas Weaver of the Networking Group is featured in an article on Creative Match, a UK search engine featuring user submitted content. Read the article >>

ICSI Hosts TRANSCOOP Workshop

March 22, 2004
On March 22-26, 2004, ICSI hosted a collaborative FrameNet workshop on multilingual semantic analysis. In attendance were members of ICSI's FrameNet staff and their German colleagues Manfred Pinkal, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastien Pado and Aljoscha Burchardt from the University of Saarbruecken as well as ICSI alum Hans Boas, who is currently at the University of Texas at Austin. The German visitors are associated with a semantic parsing project called SALSA, directed by Professor Pinkal. Midway through the conference, four researchers from Xerox PARC, Danny Bobrow, Ron Kaplan, Cleo Conaravdi and Richard Crouch, joined the workshop.

ICSI Helps Collect Linguistic Data

March 18, 2004

For the month of April, ICSI is one of three sites hosting a data collection effort for the Mixer Project being conducted by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) at the University of Pennsylvania. LDC is collecting switchboard-style conversations of participants talking on the phone with one another on given topics for use in developing speech recognition and speaker recognition technologies.

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