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George Lakoff Awarded the Giulio Predi Prize

November 15, 2007
The Regional Council of Tuscany has awarded the Giulio Predi Prize in Science and Democracy to Professor George Lakoff of the Berkeley Linguistics Department. Lakoff is a longtime collaborator with the AI Group at ICSI. This is the first time the prize has been awarded and Professor Lakoff was the unanimous choice of the scientific committee. He will be accepting the prize in Florence, Italy on November 24.

ICSI Signs MOU with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development

October 30, 2007
On October 30, ICSI signed a Memo of Understanding (MOU) with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development. Mr. Reginaldo Arcuri, President of the agency, visited ICSI to sign the memo along with officials from the Brazilian Development Bank. The MOU will be the framework within which future activities between ICSI and Brazil, such as a visitor program, will be organized.

Vern Paxson Collaborates with UC San Diego Researchers to Fight Internet Black Markets

October 15, 2007
Vern Paxson of the Networking Group collaborated with Adrian Perrig and Jason Franklin from Carnegie Mellon and Stefan Savage from UC San Diego to design tools to fight the growth of Internet black markets. Franklin, a PhD student and former ICSI visitor, said, "Our research monitoring found that more than 80,000 potential credit card numbers were available through these illicit underground web economies." To read about the strategies being used to stop identity and credit card theft online, see this press release from Carnegie Mellon.

Christian Müller Is Editor of Two New Books

September 30, 2007
Christian Müller, a postdoctoral researcher from Germany working with the Speech Group, is the editor of two new books on speaker classification. The books are part of Springer's State-of-the-Art Survey and the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence sub-series of Lecture Notes on Computer Science.

Gerald Friedland Receives IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award

September 5, 2007
Gerald Friedland, a German postdoc working with the Speech Group, received the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his contributions to organizing the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007). Friedland served as the Program Coordination Co-Chair for this conference, which took place September 17-19, 2007.

Srini Narayanan Wins Google Research Award

September 1, 2007
ICSI's Srini Narayanan is the winner of a Google Research Award in 2007. The award is for exploring the use of search and language technology to develop local language content and resources for rural populations in the developing world. Srini Narayanan leads the Artificial Intelligence group at ICSI and has an adjunct appointment as an Associate Professor in the Cognitive Science program and at the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

Krste Asanović Wins Prestigious Okawa Foundation Research Grant

August 15, 2007
ICSI's Krste Asanović is a winner of the prestigious Okawa Foundation Research Grant for 2007. Asanovic was selected for his work on the design of computer systems, system software, innovative high-level architectures for CPUs and memory systems, and novel low-power circuit designs. Krste began his affiliation with ICSI while a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He recently left a tenured faculty position at MIT to accept a joint appointment at ICSI and UCB.

Sally Floyd Wins the 2007 SIGCOMM Award

August 1, 2007
Congratulations to Sally Floyd, winner of the 2007 SIGCOMM Award! The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to recognize the achievements of an exceptional computer scientist. Floyd is a leading researcher in the fields of Internet congestion control and Internet architecture. Her past awards include the IEEE Internet Award for 2005 and the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Science and Engineering department in 2002.

ICSI Welcomes Dr. David Tennenhouse and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to Its Board of Trustees

July 31, 2007
ICSI is pleased to welcome two new members to the Board of Trustees, Dr. David Tennenhouse and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan. Dr. Tennenhouse is a general partner at New Venture Partners, which specializes in corporate spin-outs. Formerly, he was CEO of A9, Amazon.com's search technology subsidiary, and Director of Research for Intel. Dr. Raghavan is the head of Yahoo! Research and is also a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM.

ICSI Researchers Create Javascript Program in Response to Slashdot Article

July 15, 2007
In response to a recent article posted on the popular tech site Slashdot claiming that some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are increasing revenue by inserting ads into web pages viewed by their users, Scientists at ICSI and University of Washington created a Javascript program that checks whether this occurs. They found a few cases where this is true.

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