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ICSI Signs MOU with China Scholarship Council

December 15, 2005
ICSI has signed a memo-of-understanding (MOU) with the China Scholarship Council to create a new international visitors' program--"Chinese Scholars at ICSI" (CSI). The CSI program will bring up to ten young and upcoming Chinese scientists to ICSI each year, and will emphasize collaborative research initiatives with sponsoring commercial partners.

Spanish Visitor Program Call for Applicants

December 5, 2005
The 2007 Spanish call for proposals has now been issued (see below), with an application deadline of February 24, 2008. The English language version can be seen here.

ICSI's HAP Software Used to Analyze Genetic Data

October 18, 2005
ICSI's Eran Halperin and UCSD's Eleazar Eskin have analysed the genetic data in the National Institute of Health's dbSNP database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), using HAP, the haplotype analysis software they developed. The total size of the dataset analyzed is more than double that of previous datasets.

ICSI Delegation Visited Finland

October 10, 2005
Nelson Morgan, Eran Halperin, and Vern Paxson formed an ICSI delegation to Finland the week of October 10, visiting a number of key institutions including HIIT, HUT, VTT, TUT, the Turku Science Park, Tekes, Nokia, SSH, and F-Secure. The overall goal was to initiate potential collaborations, particularly for the Berkeley-Finland visitor program, and to participate in technical exchanges with Finnish scientists in the areas of speech processing, bioinformatics, and internet research. The talks were quite productive, and we expect to be seeing a number of new Finnish researchers visiting ICSI in the coming year as a direct result of these events.

Jaron Lanier Named One of Top 100 Public Intellectuals

September 30, 2005
Jaron Lanier was named by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the top 100 public intellectuals, defined by the FP website as "someone who has shown distinction in their own field along with the ability to communicate ideas and influence debate outside of it". Foreign Policy invited the public to vote for their top five from this list of 100. Voting has now closed, but the list can be seen here. Results of the poll will be made public in November.

Dr. Jouko Salo Joins Board of Trustees

September 30, 2005
ICSI's annual Board of Trustees meeting took place on September 30th. New board member, Dr. Jouko Salo, was elected to replace Dr. Ilpo Reitmaa. Reitmaa has been named Technology Counselor for the Finnish Liaison for the European Union in Brussels. Dr. Salo has been affiliated with ICSI for several years through TEKES and the Finnish visitor program, and was unanimously approved by the trustees to succeed Dr. Reitmaa.

ICSI's Research Review September 29th

September 29, 2005
ICSI's Research Review was expanded this year to an all day event. The review, held on September 29th, included talks on exciting research topics at ICSI, as well as demonstrations of newly developed technology. Members of ICSI's Board of Trustees, as well as ICSI research partners and current staff were in attendance to learn more about the varied research topics at ICSI. Featured topics included worm forensics, question answering systems, speaker recognition, machine learning algorithms, extreme computer architecture, CoPE, FrameNet, a hybrid model for human blood clotting, and haplotype resolution software (HAP).

Richard Karp Featured in Les Dossiers de la Recherche

August 16, 2005
An article about Richard Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, appeared in the August-October 2005 issue of the French journal Les Dossiers de la Recherche.

FrameNet Release 1.2 Available for Licensing

July 15, 2005
FrameNet Release 1.2 is now available for licensing. FrameNet is a semantically rich, machine-readable lexicon of English and a corresponding set of annotated sentences for use in advanced natural language processing (NLP) applications.

Scott Shenker Receives 2006 IEEE Internet Award

June 29, 2005
Scott Shenker, head of the Networking Group and Vice President of ICSI, has been selected to receive the 2006 IEEE Internet Award, for contributions toward an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet. This award is presented annually for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. Sally Floyd of the Networking Group received the 2005 award.

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