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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.

George Lakoff Awarded the Giulio Predi Prize

November 15, 2007
The Regional Council of Tuscany has awarded the Giulio Predi Prize in Science and Democracy to Professor George Lakoff of the Berkeley Linguistics Department. Lakoff is a longtime collaborator with the AI Group at ICSI. This is the first time the prize has been awarded and Professor Lakoff was the unanimous choice of the scientific committee. He will be accepting the prize in Florence, Italy on November 24.

ICSI Signs MOU with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development

October 30, 2007
On October 30, ICSI signed a Memo of Understanding (MOU) with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development. Mr. Reginaldo Arcuri, President of the agency, visited ICSI to sign the memo along with officials from the Brazilian Development Bank. The MOU will be the framework within which future activities between ICSI and Brazil, such as a visitor program, will be organized.

Vern Paxson Collaborates with UC San Diego Researchers to Fight Internet Black Markets

October 15, 2007
Vern Paxson of the Networking Group collaborated with Adrian Perrig and Jason Franklin from Carnegie Mellon and Stefan Savage from UC San Diego to design tools to fight the growth of Internet black markets. Franklin, a PhD student and former ICSI visitor, said, "Our research monitoring found that more than 80,000 potential credit card numbers were available through these illicit underground web economies." To read about the strategies being used to stop identity and credit card theft online, see this press release from Carnegie Mellon.

Christian Müller Is Editor of Two New Books

September 30, 2007
Christian Müller, a postdoctoral researcher from Germany working with the Speech Group, is the editor of two new books on speaker classification. The books are part of Springer's State-of-the-Art Survey and the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence sub-series of Lecture Notes on Computer Science.

Gerald Friedland Receives IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award

September 5, 2007
Gerald Friedland, a German postdoc working with the Speech Group, received the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his contributions to organizing the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007). Friedland served as the Program Coordination Co-Chair for this conference, which took place September 17-19, 2007.

Srini Narayanan Wins Google Research Award

September 1, 2007
ICSI's Srini Narayanan is the winner of a Google Research Award in 2007. The award is for exploring the use of search and language technology to develop local language content and resources for rural populations in the developing world. Srini Narayanan leads the Artificial Intelligence group at ICSI and has an adjunct appointment as an Associate Professor in the Cognitive Science program and at the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

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