News

^{July 27, 2006}
Congratulations to Dana Wilson-Green in the ICSI Accounting department on the arrival of her daughter, Nina, on Thursday, July 27. Nina weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and was 19 inches long at birth.

^{July 9, 2006}
Just in time for the World Cup final match on July 9th, Thomas Schmidt, a visiting researcher working on FrameNet, has completed "Kicktionary", a semantically annotated dictionary of soccer terms in German, French, and English. To call it a dictionary, however, is a bit misleading. It's more like a multilingual guide to the game of soccer, which not only defines terms, but defines them relative to other soccer terms, gives sample sentences showing correct usage, and clearly illustrates the situations during a soccer match relating to each term.

^{June 20, 2006}
Dr. Atanu Ghosh, XORP project leader, has been appointed to the advisory board of Vyatta, Inc. According to a press release issued by Vyatta on June 20, the advisory board is a "who's who" of networking and open-source experts. The XORP technology developed by Ghosh and his team at ICSI is an integral part of Vyatta's open source router platform. Regarding his nomination to the board, Ghosh said, "Vyatta has been a strong supporter of the XORP project, and I'm pleased to participate in Vyatta's open-source networking community."

^{June 15, 2006}
ICSI researchers Madelaine Plauché and Joyojeet Pal, along with Divya Ramachandran and Richard Carlson, were awarded third prize in the CITRIS white paper competition for their proposed work on speech technology for developing regions. Plauché and Carlson had the opportunity to travel to India this spring to test their technology in Sempatti, Tamil Nadu, India.