News

^{October 31, 2006}
Professor Richard Karp, head of the ICSI Algorithms Group, was quoted in an October 31 New York Times article by Steve Lohr. Karp's presentation at the recent "2016" symposium clearly made an impression on Lohr, who writes, "[Karp] presented a fundamental explanation for why computing has had such a major impact on other sciences, and Dr. Karp himself personifies the trend. His research has moved beyond computer science to microbiology in recent years. An algorithm, put simply, is a step-by-step recipe for calculation, and it is a central concept in both mathematics and computer science".

^{October 16, 2006}
Professor Paul Kay of ICSI's AI Group was interviewed for an October 16 Nature magazine article reporting on a recent study by scientists at Ohio State University on universals of color naming. The current study uses data from the World Color Survey to make a strong statistical case in support of ideas long held by Kay and his colleagues on color naming.

^{October 13, 2006}
ICSI hosted its annual Research Review on October 13th, along with a book signing party honoring Professor Jerry Feldman's new book, From Molecule to Metaphor. Professor Feldman was also honored by ICSI's Board of Trustees with the 2006 Distinguished Service Award during the Board of Trustees Meeting that morning. He was recognized for the guidance and expertise he provided during 10 years as ICSI's first Director, and his continued service to the Institute as a scientist in the AI Group.

^{September 21, 2006}
Research by ICSI Alum Lisa Aziz-Zadeh (now at University of Southern California) on mirror neurons was featured in a September 21, 2006 article on seedmagazine.com. Aziz-Zadeh uses fMRI technology to observe brain activity in subjects when they observe an action and when they read words describing that action - and her results show that the activity in the brain's premotor cortex is the same for both.