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Krste Asanović Wins Prestigious Okawa Foundation Research Grant

August 15, 2007
ICSI's Krste Asanović is a winner of the prestigious Okawa Foundation Research Grant for 2007. Asanovic was selected for his work on the design of computer systems, system software, innovative high-level architectures for CPUs and memory systems, and novel low-power circuit designs. Krste began his affiliation with ICSI while a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He recently left a tenured faculty position at MIT to accept a joint appointment at ICSI and UCB.

Sally Floyd Wins the 2007 SIGCOMM Award

August 1, 2007
Congratulations to Sally Floyd, winner of the 2007 SIGCOMM Award! The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to recognize the achievements of an exceptional computer scientist. Floyd is a leading researcher in the fields of Internet congestion control and Internet architecture. Her past awards include the IEEE Internet Award for 2005 and the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Science and Engineering department in 2002.

ICSI Welcomes Dr. David Tennenhouse and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to Its Board of Trustees

July 31, 2007
ICSI is pleased to welcome two new members to the Board of Trustees, Dr. David Tennenhouse and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan. Dr. Tennenhouse is a general partner at New Venture Partners, which specializes in corporate spin-outs. Formerly, he was CEO of A9, Amazon.com's search technology subsidiary, and Director of Research for Intel. Dr. Raghavan is the head of Yahoo! Research and is also a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM.

ICSI Researchers Create Javascript Program in Response to Slashdot Article

July 15, 2007
In response to a recent article posted on the popular tech site Slashdot claiming that some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are increasing revenue by inserting ads into web pages viewed by their users, Scientists at ICSI and University of Washington created a Javascript program that checks whether this occurs. They found a few cases where this is true.

Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi Receive IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

July 1, 2007
Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi, both alumni of ICSI, were co-recipients of this year's IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. This award was given "for bridging mathematics, internet design, and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization". Luby founded Digital Fountain, Inc. which utilizes technology he helped develop while at ICSI. Shokrollahi is chief scientist for Digital Fountain and works at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

Richard Karp Selected for the CRA's Council for the Computing Community Consortium

June 15, 2007
Dick Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, was selected by the Computing Research Association (CRA) to serve a one-year term on its Council for the Computing Community Consortium. The Council will provide leadership to the CRA while it works with industry partners on determining the direction of future research projects.

More about the Council and its members

Scott Shenker Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chicago

June 8, 2007
The University of Chicago presented Scott Shenker of ICSI's Networking Group with an honorary Doctorate of Science degree at its June 8 convocation ceremony. Shenker, an alum of the university, was one of five scholars to receive honorary degrees this year. He was chosen for his "unprecedented record of fundamental contributions to the core architecture that underlies the Internet, a tool that is an engineering achievement of the first order, as well as a social revolution". The complete story is online at the University of Chicago Chronicle.

Vern Paxson Featured in Search Security

May 23, 2007
Vern Paxson of ICSI's Networking Group was featured in an article by Dennis Fisher on Search Security, "Eyeing unnoticed security researchers", which profiles six security experts who are making significant contributions to the field. Paxson is described as the "baseball umpire" of Internet security, because "if things are running smoothly, you'll never even know he's there". Paxson's work to keep the Internet running smoothly, particularly with regard to early detection and prevention of worm outbreaks, is what puts him on this short list of security experts.

New Edition of Speech and Audio Signal Processing to Be Published

May 15, 2007
Wiley Press has agreed to publish a new edition of "Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music", a textbook previously written by ICSI's Nelson Morgan and MIT's Ben Gold, with added material that will be written over the next year by ICSI alum Dan Ellis (now at Columbia University).

Dilek Hakkani-Tur Wins Best Paper Award

May 1, 2007
Speech Communication awarded the 2007 best paper award to Dilek Hakkani-Tur of ICSI's Speech Group, Gokhan Tur of SRI, and Robert E. Schapire of Princeton for their paper Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding. The paper was originally published in the February 2005 edition of Speech Communication.

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