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Geo-Tagging Study Featured in The New York Times and New Scientist

August 15, 2010
CBS, The New York Times, Good Morning America, and New Scientist  magazine have featured the work of researchers Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer. The researchers looked at geo-tagged videos and photos on the Internet that contain embedded longitude and latitude coordinates.

Orpheus Crutchfield Profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine

August 1, 2010
Orpheus Crutchfield, the executive director of the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT), was profiled in the August 1 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. BFOIT is an ICSI program that supports historically underrepresented ethnic minorities and women in technology. Through seminars hosted at UC Berkeley and ICSI, BFOIT inspires local high school and middle school students to pursue careers in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and information technology. The Chronicle profile highlighted Crutchfield's commitment to promoting diversity and encouraging youth.

Vern Paxson Quoted in MIT Technology Review

July 15, 2010
Vern Paxson of the Networking Group is quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on Internet security. The article describes recent attacks by botnets, groups of computers that are infected with viruses. These botnets are controlled remotely and are responsible for the vast majority of spam on the Internet. Networking's research on botnets has been featured in New Scientist magazine.

Read the Technology Review article here >>

Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt Receive GECCO Best Paper Award

July 7, 2010
Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt, DAAD-sponsored postdoctoral fellows in the Algorithms Group, received the best paper award in the Parallel and Evolutionary Systems track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in July. Three papers co-authored by Sudholt were nominated for best paper awards. DAAD-program alum Tobias Friedrich received an award in the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization track.

Meeting Diarist Presented at Research@Intel 2010 Day

June 30, 2010
ICSI research in speaker diarization was presented at the Research@Intel 2010 Day on June 30. Speech Group researchers Adam Janin, Gerald Friedland, and ICSI Director Nelson Morgan presented the Meeting Diarist, a tool that recognizes who is speaking and what is being said, and allows users to search for relevant parts of a meeting's transcript.

Watch the presentation here >>

PC Mag featured the presentation in an article about the event >>

Charles Fillmore Interviewed in Review of Cognitive Linguistics

June 15, 2010
An interview with Professor Charles Fillmore, the director of ICSI's FrameNet Project, will appear in this year's Review of Cognitive Linguistics. The interview, Discussing Frame Semantics: The State of the Art by József Andor, comments on Fillmore's leading role in frame semantics and goes into recent developments in the field.

Richard Karp and Eran Halperin Invited to Give Talks at Three International Conferences

June 15, 2010
Algorithms Group members have been invited to give talks at three international conferences this summer. Group leader Richard Karp gave a keynote talk at the Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, held in New York City in June, and Eran Halperin was invited to give talks at the 7th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, in Rome in May and at the 10th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics in Liverpool in September.

UC Berkeley Team Wins Personal Robot 2 Beta Program

June 9, 2010
A UC Berkeley team led by Professor Pieter Abbeel, ICSI Vision Group leader Trevor Darrell, and Professor Stuart Russell is one of the winners in the Personal Robot 2 Beta Program, sponsored by robotics company Willow Garage. The team, which includes Speech Group affiliate Dan Klein, will be given a robot for two years, and will experiment with hierarchical planning, perception, and manipulation of deformable objects, such as towels. Read more about the team's plans for the robot here >>

Paul Kay Publishes Article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

June 1, 2010
Paul Kay, a researcher with the AI Group, has published an article in the June 1 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article is Kay's tenth on color naming and perception to appear in PNAS in the last five years. Read the article here>>

Netalyzr Featured in New Scientist

May 25, 2010
The Netalyzr system, developed by members of the Networking Group, has been featured in New Scientist magazine. The article encourages readers to try the system, which analyzes the extent to which a user's Internet service provider is interferring with its customers' traffic. To date, 130,000 users from 180 countries have tried the system. New Scientist also provides background information written for a nontechnical audience on the tests conducted by Netalyzr.The system, developed by Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver, has also been featured in an article in the Register.

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