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ICSI Hosts BEARS Open House

February 12, 2009
ICSI's annual BEARS Open House was held on February 12th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. Professor Trevor Darrell, head of the new Vision Group, presented a talk on his latest computer vision work, Luke Gottlieb showed a video demo of recent speaker diarization work by members of the Speech Group, and the FrameNet team demonstrated their latest improvements, including some work on different languages. In addition, representatives from all research groups presented posters summarizing recent results from various current research projects.

Professor Karp Wins Dickson Prize

February 9, 2009
Professor Richard Karp, head of ICSI's Algorithms Group, is the 2008 winner of the Dickson Prize in Science. According to the prize website, "The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually to the person who has been judged by Carnegie Mellon University to have made the most progress in the scientific field in the U.S. for the year in question." The prize will be presented to Professor Karp on March 25, 2009.

Hakanni-Tür et al. Win IEEE Best Paper

January 26, 2009
Dilek Hakanni-Tür of ICSI's Speech Group and Guiseppe Riccardi of the University of Trento have won an IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) 2008 Best Paper Award for their paper, "Active Learning: Theory and Applications to Automatic Speech Recognition" which appeared in the July 2005 issue of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. They will be presented with the award at the ICASSP 2009 conference in Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009.

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