News

New Board Members and Corporate Officers at ICSI

October 13, 2006
ICSI's Board of Trustees met on October 13th, and voted on changes to Board membership and corporate officers at ICSI. Professor Stuart Russell replaces Jitendra Malik as ex officio board representative from the University of California, Berkeley's Computer Science department, and Professor Javier Aracil of Spain's Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid fills the board seat of recently deceased Mr. Pedro Lizcano.

Professor Domenico Ferrari Receives the 2006 SIGCOMM Award

September 28, 2006
Professor Domenico Ferrari (ICSI alum featured in the March 2006 ICSI Gazette) received the 2006 SIGCOMM award. The SIGCOMM award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks. Ferrari was selected for "fundamental contributions to Internet QoS architecture and wide-area network research testbeds, his leadership in managing the BSD Unix project, his leadership in founding and establishing ICSI as a premier international networking research institution, and his dedication to educate the next generation of leaders in networking research". A list of past participants is available on the SIGCOMM website.

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh Featured on Seedmagazine.com

September 21, 2006
Research by ICSI Alum Lisa Aziz-Zadeh (now at University of Southern California) on mirror neurons was featured in a September 21, 2006 article on seedmagazine.com. Aziz-Zadeh uses fMRI technology to observe brain activity in subjects when they observe an action and when they read words describing that action - and her results show that the activity in the brain's premotor cortex is the same for both.

Professor Vern Paxson's "SIGCOMM Test of Time" Award

September 12, 2006
Professor Vern Paxson, Internet security expert from ICSI's Networking Group, has been awarded the "SIGCOMM Test of Time" award for his paper titled "End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet," which was published at SIGCOMM's 1996 conference. The award recognizes a paper published 10 to 12 years in the past.

Eric Allman Honored at Telluride Tech Fest

August 15, 2006
ICSI alum Eric Allman was honored at the Telluride Tech Fest 2006. Allman, author of Sendmail, the world's first Internet mail program, was a researcher in ICSI's "Realization Group" (the predecessor to today's Speech Group) in the early 1990's. More information on the Tech Fest honorees is available on The Telluride Watch.

XORP Version 1.3 Released

August 2, 2006
The XORP team announced the release of XORP version 1.3 on August 2nd. The new version has several new features, including the ability to build on Linux Fedora Core5, DraagonFlye BSD-1.4, and FeeBSD-6.1, implementation of IGMPv3 and MLDv2, and numerous bug fixes. Download XORP 1.3 and read more details at xorp.org.

The Internet is Buzzing About Vyatta

July 29, 2006
The Internet is buzzing about Vyatta, Inc. and ICSI's XORP routing technology, since a late July press release from Vyatta regarding the release of their Open Flexible Router (OFR), which utilizes XORP as its routing stack. Around the same time, Light Reading featured Vyatta as one of the top ten new startups. Here are a few more links to recent articles about Vyatta and XORP:

Congratulations to Dana Wilson-Green

July 27, 2006
Congratulations to Dana Wilson-Green in the ICSI Accounting department on the arrival of her daughter, Nina, on Thursday, July 27. Nina weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and was 19 inches long at birth.

Dr. Eddie Kohler Selected as a TR35 2006 Young Innovator

July 18, 2006
Congratulations to Dr. Eddie Kohler, an ICSI alum now teaching at UCLA, on being selected by MIT Technology Review as a TR35 2006 Young Innovator. Kohler was selected for developing Asbestos, an operating system that protects private data, even when software programs may have failed. Read more about Kohler and his work online at MIT Technology Review.

FrameNet Visitor Thomas Schmidt has Completed "Kicktionary"

July 9, 2006
Just in time for the World Cup final match on July 9th, Thomas Schmidt, a visiting researcher working on FrameNet, has completed "Kicktionary", a semantically annotated dictionary of soccer terms in German, French, and English. To call it a dictionary, however, is a bit misleading. It's more like a multilingual guide to the game of soccer, which not only defines terms, but defines them relative to other soccer terms, gives sample sentences showing correct usage, and clearly illustrates the situations during a soccer match relating to each term.

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