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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.

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.

Nelson Morgan Named to the ISCA Advisory Council

December 31, 2008
Professor Nelson Morgan, ICSI's Director, has been named to the Advisory Council of the International Speech Communication Society (ISCA). ISCA is the primary organization devoted to speech communication science and technology.

Richard Karp Profiled in The Berkeley Science Review

December 1, 2008
Professor Richard M. Karp, of the ICSI Algorithms Group, was profiled in The Berkeley Science Review, Issue 15. The feature is written by ICSI Speech Group grad student Dan Gillick, a regular contributor to the publication.

Networking Group's Research on Profitability of Spam Featured in the Washington Post

November 6, 2008
Recent research on the profitability of spam, conducted by ICSI Networking Group researchers along with a team from UCSD, was featured in a Washington Post blog article on November 6, 2008.

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