News

Vern Paxson Receives NSF Grant to Improve Bro Intrusion Detection

October 1, 2003
Vern Paxson of ICIR received a grant from NSF for "Viable Network Defense for Scientific Research Institutions." This project tackles the problem of how to defend a site from Internet attacks when the site requires broad, open access to the Internet to perform its mission. The research will be done using the Bro intrusion detection system at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. The goal is to enhance Bro's capabilities and applicability to operational use, to foster a Bro user community that will facilitate the use of Bro at research institutions, and to develop new network-based intrusion detection algorithms.

AI Group Receives DARPA Grant

September 30, 2003
The Artificial Intelligence Group has received a grant from DARPA to continue work on the FrameNet project.

FrameNet Project Featured in the International Journal of Lexicography

September 15, 2003
ICSI's FrameNet project was featured in the September 2003 issue of the International Journal of Lexicography (Volume 16, Number 3). The publication, focused entirely on FrameNet, features several articles by current and former ICSI researchers.

Srini Narayanan Awarded Subcontract from the University of Texas

September 15, 2003
Srini Narayanan of the Artificial Intelligence Group has been awarded a subcontract from University of Texas at Dallas for work on an ARDA project "Causal and Temporal Reasoning for Question Answering Systems."

Speech Group Receives Subcontract from UC Berkeley

September 1, 2003
ICSI's Speech Group receives subcontract for work on UC Berkeley's NSF project entitled "Information and Communication Technology for Billions" (ICT4B). The goal of this project is to provide access to computer technology in third world countries where it is not currently available, through the development of inexpensive hardware as well as speech recognition technology that can adapt to many different languages. Chuck Wooters of ICSI's Speech Group will lead research to develop a speech recognition toolkit that will be used on the computers being developed for this project.

Michael Ellis Joins SysAdmin Staff

August 31, 2003
Michael Ellis has joined the ICSI SysAdmin Staff as its new Manager. David Johnson will be moving to a new role leading infrastructure projects.

Nikki Mirghafori, John Moody, and Mark Allman Join ICSI Research Staff

August 15, 2003
ICSI has several new permanent staff researchers. Nikki Mirghafori, a former Ph.D. student at ICSI, has returned to work with the Speech Group. John Moody is working with the Algorithms Group. Finally, Mark Allman is working with the ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR). We look forward to the contributions all three of our new researchers will bring to ICSI's research program.

Mark Handley Appointed Chair at University College London

August 1, 2003
Mark Handley been appointed to a Chair as a Professor of Networked Systems at University College London. He will continue working with the XORP project much in the spirit of our other strong European collaborations, with the status of ICSI External Fellow.

ICSI Appoints Four New Faculty Associates

July 1, 2003
ICSI has appointed four new Faculty Associates, in recognition of their close collaboration with ICSI staff on one or more research activities. They are: Professor Steve Weber of the Political Science Department, UCB (working with BCIS); and Professors Joe Hellerstein, Christos Papadimitriou, and Ion Stoica of the Computer Science Department, UCB (working with ICIR).

Birth of Howard Ming Zhu

May 16, 2003
On May 16, 2003, Howard Ming Zhu was born, son of proud ICSI parent Qifeng Zhu and Xuemei Feng. Howard was nine pounds eleven ounces at birth and 22 inches long. Howard's Chinese name is Zhu, Minghao and is a very happy (and big) baby. His father is sure that Howard will be bigger than Dad.

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