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Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi Receive IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

July 1, 2007
Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi, both alumni of ICSI, were co-recipients of this year's IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. This award was given "for bridging mathematics, internet design, and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization". Luby founded Digital Fountain, Inc. which utilizes technology he helped develop while at ICSI. Shokrollahi is chief scientist for Digital Fountain and works at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

Richard Karp Selected for the CRA's Council for the Computing Community Consortium

June 15, 2007
Dick Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, was selected by the Computing Research Association (CRA) to serve a one-year term on its Council for the Computing Community Consortium. The Council will provide leadership to the CRA while it works with industry partners on determining the direction of future research projects.

More about the Council and its members

Scott Shenker Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chicago

June 8, 2007
The University of Chicago presented Scott Shenker of ICSI's Networking Group with an honorary Doctorate of Science degree at its June 8 convocation ceremony. Shenker, an alum of the university, was one of five scholars to receive honorary degrees this year. He was chosen for his "unprecedented record of fundamental contributions to the core architecture that underlies the Internet, a tool that is an engineering achievement of the first order, as well as a social revolution". The complete story is online at the University of Chicago Chronicle.

Vern Paxson Featured in Search Security

May 23, 2007
Vern Paxson of ICSI's Networking Group was featured in an article by Dennis Fisher on Search Security, "Eyeing unnoticed security researchers", which profiles six security experts who are making significant contributions to the field. Paxson is described as the "baseball umpire" of Internet security, because "if things are running smoothly, you'll never even know he's there". Paxson's work to keep the Internet running smoothly, particularly with regard to early detection and prevention of worm outbreaks, is what puts him on this short list of security experts.

New Edition of Speech and Audio Signal Processing to Be Published

May 15, 2007
Wiley Press has agreed to publish a new edition of "Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music", a textbook previously written by ICSI's Nelson Morgan and MIT's Ben Gold, with added material that will be written over the next year by ICSI alum Dan Ellis (now at Columbia University).

Dilek Hakkani-Tur Wins Best Paper Award

May 1, 2007
Speech Communication awarded the 2007 best paper award to Dilek Hakkani-Tur of ICSI's Speech Group, Gokhan Tur of SRI, and Robert E. Schapire of Princeton for their paper Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding. The paper was originally published in the February 2005 edition of Speech Communication.

Birth of Alyssa Aoki Levit

April 19, 2007
Congralations to Michael Levit of the Speech Group and his wife Mika. Their daughter Alyssa Aoki Levit was born on April 19th at 8:00 p.m.

Speech Group Excels at Annual NIST Evaluations

April 15, 2007
The ICSI Speech Group has once again scored very well at the annual NIST evaluations in speech recognition and diarization. Building on last year's success, both ICSI's diarization team and the ICSI/SRI speech recognition team excelled in all categories entered in this year's evals.

XORP 1.4 Released

April 1, 2007
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) has announced Release 1.4 of XORP, the eXtensible Open Router Platform. The software is available for download at www.xorp.org.

Release 1.4 adds OSPFv3, the IPv6-compatible version of the Open Shortest Path First protocol, to the set of routing protocols that XORP supports. Because of XORP's "design for extensibility" philosophy and architecture, the new OSPFv3 implementation represents a straightforward extension of the XORP OSPFv2 code base. Release 1.4 supports IPv4 and IPv6 functionality for all major Linux and BSD platforms, as well as for Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows Server 2003 support is currently IPv4 only.

Birth of Miriam Kiesling

March 13, 2007
Congratulations to Tobias Kiesling, a visting scientist with the Networking Group, and his wife Manuela, on the birth of their daughter Miriam on Tuesday, March 13th. Miriam weighed 3465 grams and was 52 cm long.

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