News

^{October 12, 2004}
At the ICSI Town Meeting on October 12, 2004, Professor Nelson Morgan, Director of ICSI, announced that Dr. Srini Narayanan will be taking over the responsibility of leading the Artificial Intelligence group from Professor Jerry Feldman. Dr. Narayanan was selected by Professor Feldman to succeed him in this leadership role at ICSI after Professor Feldman was chosen to be the Project Director of Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley, a position he has held since July, 2004.

^{September 21, 2004}
With funding from the National Science Foundation's Cybertrust Program, researchers at ICSI and UC San Diego will open a new Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CIED). The center, led by Stefan Savage of UC San Diego and Vern Paxson of ICSI, aims to combat epidemic-style attacks on the Internet.

The Center will work toward understanding how the Internet's open communications and software vulnerabilities permit worms and viruses to propagate, designing a global-scale early warning system to automatically detect epidemics in their early tages, devising forensics capabilities for analyzing wide-ranging infections, and developing techniques and devices that can suppress outbreaks before they reach pandemic proportions.

^{September 9, 2004}
Mark Allman of the Networking Group was awarded a NASA Public Service Medal in September. This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the mission of NASA.

^{September 1, 2004}
On September 1st, ICSI welcomed the first two visiting researchers for the European Union Integrated Project called "Augmented Mulitparty Interaction" (AMI). Xavi Anguera and Marc Ferras of Spain will be working with Speech Group researchers on this project, which aims to improve computer enhanced multi-modal interaction. AMI is managed by two ICSI alumni, Herve Bourlard of IDIAP and Steve Renals of University of Edinburgh.