News

^{May 27, 2005}
ICSI's speaker recognition group, a subset of the Speech Group, participated in the 2005 speaker recognition evaluation conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These evaluations are an important contribution to the calibration of technical capabilities and are of interest to researchers working on the general problem of text-independent speaker recognition worldwide.
ICSI's submitted system was one of the top performers in the core test condition. The effort was led by staff scientist Nikki Mirghafori and showcased work of students Kofi Boakye, Dan Gillick, Andy Hatch, and Steve Stafford, with important contributions from SRI's Speaker Recognition team.

^{May 23, 2005}
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a paper on color naming worldwide by Terry Regier, a frequent ICSI visitor, Paul Kay, a senior researcher in ICSI's AI Group, and Richard Cook, an ICSI postdoctoral resarcher. On May 23, 2005, a write-up about this research appeared on Science Magazine's online daily news site, sciencenow.com, in an article called "Carving Up the Rainbow".

^{May 22, 2005}
A recent study co-authored by Dr. Eran Halperin of ICSI with scientists at Perlegen and UC San Diego was reviewed in MIT's Technology Review magazine. The project, the first of three studies featured in "From The Lab: Biotech" by Monya Baker in the June, 2005 issue, is described as a "gene map shortcut" which uses a subset of SNPs to describe human genetic variation. Read the Article >>

^{April 21, 2005}
Eric Fosler-Lussier has been named an ICSI External Fellow. He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Ohio State University. Fosler-Lussier is a former graduate student researcher and postdoctoral researcher with ICSI's Speech Group, and as an External Fellow will collaborate with ICSI on speech projects.