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Jaron Lanier Named One of Top 100 Public Intellectuals

September 30, 2005
Jaron Lanier was named by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the top 100 public intellectuals, defined by the FP website as "someone who has shown distinction in their own field along with the ability to communicate ideas and influence debate outside of it". Foreign Policy invited the public to vote for their top five from this list of 100. Voting has now closed, but the list can be seen here. Results of the poll will be made public in November.

Dr. Jouko Salo Joins Board of Trustees

September 30, 2005
ICSI's annual Board of Trustees meeting took place on September 30th. New board member, Dr. Jouko Salo, was elected to replace Dr. Ilpo Reitmaa. Reitmaa has been named Technology Counselor for the Finnish Liaison for the European Union in Brussels. Dr. Salo has been affiliated with ICSI for several years through TEKES and the Finnish visitor program, and was unanimously approved by the trustees to succeed Dr. Reitmaa.

ICSI's Research Review September 29th

September 29, 2005
ICSI's Research Review was expanded this year to an all day event. The review, held on September 29th, included talks on exciting research topics at ICSI, as well as demonstrations of newly developed technology. Members of ICSI's Board of Trustees, as well as ICSI research partners and current staff were in attendance to learn more about the varied research topics at ICSI. Featured topics included worm forensics, question answering systems, speaker recognition, machine learning algorithms, extreme computer architecture, CoPE, FrameNet, a hybrid model for human blood clotting, and haplotype resolution software (HAP).

Richard Karp Featured in Les Dossiers de la Recherche

August 16, 2005
An article about Richard Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, appeared in the August-October 2005 issue of the French journal Les Dossiers de la Recherche.

FrameNet Release 1.2 Available for Licensing

July 15, 2005
FrameNet Release 1.2 is now available for licensing. FrameNet is a semantically rich, machine-readable lexicon of English and a corresponding set of annotated sentences for use in advanced natural language processing (NLP) applications.

Scott Shenker Receives 2006 IEEE Internet Award

June 29, 2005
Scott Shenker, head of the Networking Group and Vice President of ICSI, has been selected to receive the 2006 IEEE Internet Award, for contributions toward an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet. This award is presented annually for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. Sally Floyd of the Networking Group received the 2005 award.

Clarissa on the International Space Station

June 27, 2005
An article about Richard Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, appeared in the August-October 2005 issue of the French journal Les Dossiers de la Recherche.
Clarissa, a voice-enabled procedure browser developed by NASA Ames, ICSI, UCSC and Xerox Research Center Europe, was successfully tested for the first time on the International Space Station on June 27th by astronaut John Phillips. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ever use of a spoken dialogue system in space. During the test, Phillips completed the interactive Clarissa training procedure, which exercises all the main system functionality. ICSI's Manny Rayner worked on the development of Clarissa and is thrilled that it is now working in space.

Rich Transcription Spring'05 Evaluation

June 15, 2005
Members of ICSI's Speech Group recently participated in the Rich Transcription Spring'05 evaluation, RT-05S, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This annual evaluation targets the automatic processing of audio recordings from meetings, establishing benchmarks in core recognition capabilities. ICSI submitted systems for both the speech transcription task (or "Speech-to-text") and the speaker segmentation and tracking task ("Speaker Diarization"), and peformed very well in both categories.

Research on Witty Worm in the News

June 2, 2005
Research on the Witty worm by Vern Paxson, Nick Weaver, and Abhishek Kumar continued to make headlines in June. After the write-up by Robert Lemos appeared online in late May, the research was highlighted on CNET news.com, ZDnet, monstersandcritics.com, New Scientist magazine and P2Pnet.net.

Congratulations to Mary and Martin Penilla

June 2, 2005
Congratulations to Mary and Martin Penilla! Their second child, a baby boy, was born on Wednesday, June 2nd at 9:30 pm. He was five pounds nine ounces at birth and nineteen inches long.

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