News

Birth of Alyssa Aoki Levit

April 19, 2007
Congralations to Michael Levit of the Speech Group and his wife Mika. Their daughter Alyssa Aoki Levit was born on April 19th at 8:00 p.m.

Speech Group Excels at Annual NIST Evaluations

April 15, 2007
The ICSI Speech Group has once again scored very well at the annual NIST evaluations in speech recognition and diarization. Building on last year's success, both ICSI's diarization team and the ICSI/SRI speech recognition team excelled in all categories entered in this year's evals.

XORP 1.4 Released

April 1, 2007
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) has announced Release 1.4 of XORP, the eXtensible Open Router Platform. The software is available for download at www.xorp.org.

Release 1.4 adds OSPFv3, the IPv6-compatible version of the Open Shortest Path First protocol, to the set of routing protocols that XORP supports. Because of XORP's "design for extensibility" philosophy and architecture, the new OSPFv3 implementation represents a straightforward extension of the XORP OSPFv2 code base. Release 1.4 supports IPv4 and IPv6 functionality for all major Linux and BSD platforms, as well as for Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows Server 2003 support is currently IPv4 only.

Birth of Miriam Kiesling

March 13, 2007
Congratulations to Tobias Kiesling, a visting scientist with the Networking Group, and his wife Manuela, on the birth of their daughter Miriam on Tuesday, March 13th. Miriam weighed 3465 grams and was 52 cm long.

BFOIT Accepting Applications for Summer Institute

March 1, 2007
The Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT) is accepting applications for its Summer Institute for middle school and high school students. The Summer Institute trains underrepresented minority students in computer science and helps prepare them for college and careers in technical fields. For information on how to apply or to become a volunteer, please visit the BFOIT website.

Scale Vector-Thread Microprocessor Prototype Winner of ISSCC/DAC Student Design Contest

February 28, 2007
The Scale vector-thread microprocessor prototype, developed by a team from MIT including recent ICSI visitors Professor Krste Asanovic and his students Ronny Krashinsky and Chris Batten, was completed in February. The device was a winner in the 2007 ISSCC/DAC (International Solid State Circuits Conference/Design Automation Conference) student design contest, and will be presented at the upcoming DAC conference this summer.

Seeking ICSI Director Applicants

February 20, 2007
ICSI is seeking applications for the position of Director, to begin in Fall 2008. Job description and application information

BEARS Open House

February 15, 2007
Feature Presentation by Nick Weaver of ICSI's Networking Group: Haptic Keys: A Novel Approach to User Authentication

Please join us for our annual BEARS open house on Thursday, February 15 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. ICSI scientists will be on hand throughout to discuss and demonstrate their latest research in networking, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, speech and natural language processing.

Birth of Yanai Halperin

January 29, 2007
Congratulations to Eran Halperin of the Algorithms Group and his wife Leticia. Their son Yanai was born on January 29th. Yanai weighed 7.3 pounds and was 20.5 inches long at birth.

Paul Kay Interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered"

January 27, 2007
ICSI's Paul Kay, of the AI Group, was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" on Saturday, January 27th. An audio file of the story, "Developing a Vocabulary of Color", is available from NPR's website.

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