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Conference in Honor of Charles Fillmore

July 31, 2009
The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute hosted FRAMES AND CONSTRUCTIONS: A conference in honor of Charles J. Fillmore on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The conference, whose theme is Fillmore's contributions to Linguistics for nearly five decades, took place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, July 31-Aug 2, 2009.

There were major sessions on Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar, along with other presentations linked specifically to Fillmore's work, and its relation to the allied fields of cognitive science, artificial and natural language processing.

Single Gene Mutation Linked to Follicular Lymphoma

July 20, 2009
ICSI bioinformatics researchers made significant contributions to a recently published study in Nature Genetics which links a single gene mutation to follicular lymphoma. The disease, a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, affects approximately 66,000 Americans per year, resulting in 20,000 deaths. Professor Eran Halperin and Dr. Lucia Conde of ICSI's Algorithms Group performed the statistical analysis of the genetic data used in the study, which was led by Dr. Christine Skibola of UC Berkeley and Dr. Kevin M. Brown of the Translational Genomics Research Institute. More >>

Friedrich et al. Win Best Paper Award

July 12, 2009
Tobias Friedrich, a visiting scientist in the Algorithms Group, along with co-authors Christian Horoba and Frank Newmann, won a Best Paper Award in the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization category at the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) for their paper, Multiplicative Approximatons and the Hypervolume Indicator.

Several FrameNet Articles Featured in New Book

July 3, 2009
The upcoming book "Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography", edited by ICSI alum Professor Hans C. Boas of the University of Texas, features articles contributed by several of ICSI's past and present FrameNet team: Dr. Thomas Schmidt, Professor Carlos Subirats, Professor Kyoko Ohara, Dr. Miriam Petruck, Professor Katrin Erk, and Professor Manfred Pinkal. The book is expected to be available for purchase in July from the publisher Mouton de Gruyter.

BFOIT Receives Agape Foundation Donation

June 16, 2009
BFOIT, the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, has received a generous donation for $5,000 from Paula Hawthorn and Michael Ubell of the Agape Foundation. BFOIT is an ICSI program that supports historically underrepresented ethnic minorities and women. Working directly with bay area youths from these populations, BFOIT provides training and encouragement in their desire to become leaders in the fields of computer science, engineering, and information technology.

Networking Group Featured in New Scientist

May 11, 2009
New Scientist magazine's May 11 edition (magazine issue 2707) featured botnet infiltration work done by Christian Kreibich and other members of the Networking Group in an article titled "Cyber Espionage Reveals Spammer Strategies". This work was also featured in The Berkeley Science Review in an article by ICSI's own Dan Gillick, a graduate student in the Speech Group.

Kay et al. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

May 4, 2009
Paul Kay and several co-authors from the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have a paper in the May 4-8 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled "Language Regions of Brain are Operative in Color Perception." Kay, a linguist working in the AI Group at ICSI, has been published in PNAS several times for related work on color naming and color perception.

Rückert Wins Best Paper Award

April 18, 2009
Ulrich Rückert, a postdoc with the Algorithms Group, won the Best Paper Award at the recent Siam International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2009), for a paper titled "Adaptive Concept Drift Detection" that he co-wrote with Anton Dries.

Press for Richard Karp's Kyoto Prize

March 23, 2009
Press highlights related to Professor Karp's recent Kyoto Prize: a feature article about him at investors.com and this video biography created by San Diego State University.

Professor Richard Karp Receives Kyoto Prize

March 20, 2009
Professor Richard M. Karp, head of ICSI's Algorithms Group, will be presented with the 2008 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology at the Kyoto Prize Symposium taking place in San Diego, California from March 18-20.

The Kyoto Prize is given annually by the Inamori Foundation, and is widely recognized as Japan's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. It is given to three people annually - in addition to the Advanced Technology category, prizes are awarded in Basic Sciences and Arts and Philosophy.

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