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Professor Wen Gao Named ICSI External Fellow

May 17, 2005
Professor Wen Gao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been named ICSI's newest External Fellow. Professor Gao was recently described in IEEE Spectrum as one of "Ten to Watch" among China's leading technologists. He heads a China-led international group developing a royalty-free video standard called AVS. He will be working with us to develop China-ICSI collaborations.

Eric Fosler-Lussier Named an ICSI External Fellow

April 21, 2005
Eric Fosler-Lussier has been named an ICSI External Fellow. He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Ohio State University. Fosler-Lussier is a former graduate student researcher and postdoctoral researcher with ICSI's Speech Group, and as an External Fellow will collaborate with ICSI on speech projects.

Professor Shankar Sastry Named Director of CITRIS

April 5, 2005
Professor Shankar Sastry, Chairman of the ICSI Board of Trustees and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Full Story >>

New FrameNet Website

March 17, 2005
The FrameNet Project has a new website. The redesigned site features news and information about FrameNet as well as a forum and a new tool, FrameGrapher, which allows users to browse the frame relations graphically. FrameNet Website >>

Professor Richard M. Karp Speaking at Two Symposiums

March 2, 2005
Professor Richard M. Karp of ICSI's Algorithms Group will be speaking at the Institute for Systems Biology's Fourth International Symposium in Seattle, Washington in April. More information on the Symposium >>

Karp is also an invited speaker at the 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Graphs, Algorithms and Combinatorics (GRACO 2005), also in April, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The GRACO 2005 website >>

ICSI Genetic Research in Science Magazine

February 18, 2005
New Study Makes Whole-Genome Association Studies Possible

San Diego and Berkeley, CA, February 17, 2005 - Computer scientists at ICSI and Calit2, research centers affiliated with the University of California, have teamed with biologists from Perlegen Sciences, Inc., to map key genetic signposts across three human populations. Their study - published in the Feb. 18 issue of Science - could make widely accessible the analysis of human variation based on whole-genome data, and speed efforts to pinpoint DNA variations that are associated with disease or with how patients respond differently to drugs.

AAAS Article Features HAP

February 17, 2005
The American Association for the Advancement of Science released an article entitled "Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments" on Thursday, February 17. The article is available online from the AAAS newsroom. Dr. Eran Halperin of ICSI's Algorithms group is a co-author of the featured study and is one of the developers of HAP, the haplotyping software used in the study.

Speech Recognition Technology for India

February 10, 2005
Press release written by Madelaine Plauche and Leah Hitchcock-Ybarra
February 8, 2005

Researchers at ICSI will demonstrate their speech recognition technology developed for India with UC Berkeley's TIER Project (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) as part of the UCB BEARS Conference on Thursday, February 10th.

DNA Study in PNAS

February 8, 2005
Professor Richard M. Karp, head of the ICSI Algorithms Group, and Roded Sharan, a former postdoc at ICSI, participated in a study comparing DNA of baker's yeast, a worm, and fruit flies, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on February 8. Karp and Sharan collaborated with researchers from UCSD and the Institute of Genetics in Karlsruhe, Germany on this study. More information from the UCSD News website.

Srini Narayanan is an Adjunct Professor

January 21, 2005
Srini Narayanan, leader of ICSI's AI group, started a new position as Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley in January.

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