News

Paul Kay Featured in Nature News

March 3, 2008
Paul Kay of ICSI's AI group was featured in a March 3 Nature News article by Kerri Smith entitled "Perception Coloured by Language." The piece highlights findings from two of Dr. Kay's studies, suggesting language may constrain color perception.

Vern Paxson Receives 2007 Grace Murray Hopper Award

February 21, 2008
Vern Paxson, Senior Scientist with the Networking Group and a UC Berkeley Professor, is the recipient of the 2007 Grace Murray Hopper Award from ACM for outstanding young computer professional of the year. Paxson was selected for work he did on measuring Internet behavior. ACM issued a press release about Paxson's award on February 21. Last year's winner, Dan Klein, is an ICSI Faculty Associate working with the Speech Group on machine translation.

Genome Study Results Published in the American Journal of Human Genetics

February 7, 2008
A new study by Dr. Eran Halperin of ICSI and colleagues provides a means of pinpointing the ancestry of each position on an individual's genome. This information can be used to reconstruct ancestral history, which can then be used in studies of complex genetic diseases. Results of the study are published in the February issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Large-scale genotyping of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms, mutations that occurred once in history and then were passed on through heredity and became prevalent in a population) has been used extensively to identify markers that are associated with diseases. There are about 10 million SNPs in the human genome that differ between individuals.

ICSI Postdoctoral Fellows Working with Industrial Partners

January 31, 2008
In 2008, two German postdoctoral fellows at ICSI are working with ICSI's newest industrial partners. Gerald Friedland, who came to ICSI for a 2007 fellowship, extended his research visit another year with funding from the Silicon Valley company Appscio, Inc. Felix Salfner arrived at ICSI in January of 2008 and is working with German company SAP's Palo Alto office. Salfner and Friedland also receive funding for their research visits from DAAD in Germany, ICSI's longest-running international visitor program sponsor.

Nelson Morgan Quoted in The Globe and Mail

January 10, 2008
Nelson Morgan, Director of ICSI, was quoted on globeandmail.com, a national newspaper in Canada, in an article called Reality TV: When the tube talks back. The article discusses how technology is changing the way people interact with technology, using technologies such as speech recognition.

Umit Guz Receives the TUBITAK Career Award

January 5, 2008
Umit Guz, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in 2007, received The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) CAREER Award for his project, "Extracting and Using Prosodic Information for Turkish Spoken Language Processing". Guz has returned to Turkey where he will conduct this research over the next two years, advised by ICSI's Dilek Hakkani-Tur and SRI's Gokan Tur and Mural Akbacak. Here is a description of the project:

In this project, generally, extracting and using the prosodic and lexical features of the spoken language (Turkish) in spoken language processing are aimed. More specifically, this includes sentence segmentation of an automatic speech recognizer output.

Spanish Call for Proposals Issued

January 1, 2008
The 2007 Spanish call for proposals has now been issued (see below), with an application deadline of February 24, 2008.

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