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20th Anniversary of ICSI's Incorporation as a California Non-Profit Corporation

June 26, 2006
June 26, 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of ICSI's incorporation as a California non-profit corporation. Planning and fundraising continued for the next two years, leading to ICSI's inauguration in 1988. We will offer a toast to ICSI's legal birthday at our annual summer picnic on June 30, and look forward to an inaugural celebration in two years.

Dr. Atanu Ghosh has been appointed to advisory board of Vyatta

June 20, 2006
Dr. Atanu Ghosh, XORP project leader, has been appointed to the advisory board of Vyatta, Inc. According to a press release issued by Vyatta on June 20, the advisory board is a "who's who" of networking and open-source experts. The XORP technology developed by Ghosh and his team at ICSI is an integral part of Vyatta's open source router platform. Regarding his nomination to the board, Ghosh said, "Vyatta has been a strong supporter of the XORP project, and I'm pleased to participate in Vyatta's open-source networking community."

Jerry Feldman Interviewed on KQED Forum

June 17, 2006
Jerry Feldman, who has played a leading role in the development of a neural theory of language at ICSI and UC Berkeley, was interviewed by Michael Krasny on the KQED Forum radio show on Monday, July 17 at 9:00 am. Krasny conducted an in depth interview with Feldman on the theories presented in his new book, "From Molecule to Metaphor". A transcription of the interview is available on the KQED Forum audio archives.

Third Prize in CITRIS White Paper Competition

June 15, 2006
ICSI researchers Madelaine Plauché and Joyojeet Pal, along with Divya Ramachandran and Richard Carlson, were awarded third prize in the CITRIS white paper competition for their proposed work on speech technology for developing regions. Plauché and Carlson had the opportunity to travel to India this spring to test their technology in Sempatti, Tamil Nadu, India.

ICSI Internet Security Experts Quoted in IBM Press Release

June 13, 2006
An IBM press release issued on July 13, 2006 quotes ICSI Internet security experts for statistics on financial damage that could be caused by a major Internet worm outbreak.

Jaron Lanier on Edge

June 10, 2006
Jaron Lanier was quoted in the New York Times business section on June 10. He had recently published an article, The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, on Edge, which got attention from bloggers and online news sites for its criticism of Wikipedia. Dan Mitchell, a reporter for the Times, featured Lanier's article and reactions to it in a round-up of online news, So Many Airfares, So Much Data.

Professor George Lakoff Featured in Chronogram

June 7, 2006
Professor George Lakoff, of UC Berkeley and ICSI's Neural Theory of Language project, is featured in the July 2006 issue of Chronogram, a Hudson Valley, New York based magazine of "events and ideas". He was interviewed for the magazine by Loma Tychostup on his theories about the use of linguistic frames in politics.

ICSI Speech Technology Excelled at NIST Evaluations

June 5, 2006
ICSI speech processing technology excelled in the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) evaluations. The ICSI Speaker Diarization system and the ICSI/SRI Speech-to-Text (STT) system performed extremely well in all test conditions that were entered in the NIST evals. More information about this year's evals is available from the NIST 2006 Rich Transcription Eval Site. Although NIST regulations prevent comparing ICSI's results to those of other participating labs, complete results are available from the NIST website:

From Molecule to Metophor

June 1, 2006
From Molecule to Metaphor, a new book by Professor Jerome A. Feldman, ICSI's first Director and current research scientist, was released in June 2006 by MIT Press. The book describes in detail the ICSI NTL group's theory on the neural basis of human language and thought. Early endorsements of the book suggest it may have a profound impact on the field of Cognitive Science.

Sally Floyd Cited as Female Expert in Computing

March 23, 2006
In a letter to Nature magazine and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, a group of senior female technology professors named ICSI's Sally J. Floyd as one of three women who exemplify "outstanding female experts in computing and other fields". Floyd was cited for her work on core Internet technologies.

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