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AI Group Collaborating with UC Irvine

October 3, 2011
AI Group researchers will assist a colleague at UC Irvine in studying variations in color categorization among Pacific Rim cultures and in creating a public database showing how speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages name different colors. The Mesoamerican Color Survey, collected between 1978 and 1981 by the late cognitive anthropologist Robert E. MacLaury, documents how cultures in Mexico and Central America categorize color and until now has been available only in hard copy.

Priv3 Featured on Lifehacker

September 27, 2011
Priv3, an extension for Firefox developed by Networking Group members that keeps social networking sites from tracking your movement on certain Web pages without your knowledge, has been featured on Lifehacker.com >>

Roberto Pieraccini Appointed ICSI's New Director

September 1, 2011
ICSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Roberto Pieraccini to the position of director. In January, Pieraccini will succeed Nelson Morgan, who will continue to lead the Speech Group and assist Pieraccini as his deputy director. Pieraccini comes to ICSI from SpeechCycle, where he has served as chief technology officer since 2005.

Second Edition of Speech and Audio Signal Processing Published

August 31, 2011
A second edition of the acclaimed textbook Speech and Audio Signal Processing by Nelson Morgan, director of ICSI, and Ben Gold was released in August by Wiley Publishing. The textbook, initially published in 1999, was updated and expanded in a number of areas, including psychoacoustic audio coding and music transcription. Columbia University Professor and ICSI contributor Dan Ellis is a new principal coauthor and editor for the edition. Other new contributors include ICSI researchers Steven Wegmann and Gerald Friedland and ICSI alum David van Leeuwen.

Networking Researcher Barath Raghavan Wins Best Paper Award

August 25, 2011
Networking Group researcher Barath Raghavan won the best paper award at the Workshop on Green Neworking at ACM SIGCOMM 2011, held August 19 in Toronto. His paper, written with UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Justin Ma, explores what might happen to the Internet in the event of an oil shortage resulting in a global energy crisis. Read the paper here >>

Third Parties Paid to Install Malware

August 20, 2011
Networking Group researchers have found that the majority of the most active malware distributors pay third parties to install their malicious software on at least some of the computers they infect. Networking researchers Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, and Vern Paxson, in collaboration with Juan Cabellero of IMDEA Software Institute, won an Outstanding Paper Award at the USENIX Security Symposium 2011 for the work, which was featured in the MIT Technology Review.

Some Internet Service Providers Redirect Internet Searches

August 10, 2011
Some Internet service providers (ISPs) redirect Internet searches through third-party companies, according to Networking Group researchers. New Scientist, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, Slashdot, and the Washington Post have featured the findings.

ICSI Networking Researchers Win FCC Open Internet Research Challenge

August 1, 2011
Networking researchers have won the FCC Open Internet Research Challenge with their Netalyzr system, which tests whether a user's Internet service provider (ISP) is interfering with network traffic. The challenge, issued by the Federal Communications Commission, called for research papers on work to keep the Internet transparent, open, and under consumer control. Watch senior researcher Nicholas Weaver's presentation and acceptance speech on behalf of the team here >>

Read the winning paper here >>

Try the Netalyzr system here >>

Study by AI Researcher Paul Kay Featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

August 1, 2011
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published a study coauthored by AI researcher Paul Kay on interactions between color, language, and brain activity. The article shows that the brain-localized effect of linguistic categories on early color processing occurs out of awareness. Kay has published a dozen papers in PNAS in the last several years. Read the article here >>

Vern Paxson to Present Keynote Speech at SIGCOMM 2011

July 25, 2011
Vern Paxson, a senior researcher in the Networking Group, has been invited to give the keynote talk at SIGCOMM 2011, to be held in August in Toronto. SIGCOMM, the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications, is considered the leading conference in networking. Paxson's talk is titled "Reflections on Measurement Research: Crooked Lines, Straight Lines, and Moneyshots."

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