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Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt Receive PPSN 2010 Best Paper Award

September 11, 2010
Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt, DAAD-sponsored postdoctoral fellows in the Algorithms Group, received the best paper award at the International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), held in September. Lässig and Sudholt won the award for their paper titled "General Scheme for Analyzing Running Times of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms." The pair also received a best paper award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in July.

Susanne Hambrusch Appointed Director of the NSF's CCF Division

August 30, 2010
Professor Susanne Hambrusch, a former ICSI visiting scholar, has been appointed the director of NSF's Computing and Communication Foundation (CCF), a division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Hambrusch, who has been on the faculty of Purdue University since 1982, visited the Algorithms Group under Professor Richard Karp in ICSI's early years.

Online Images Can Carry Location Data, Leave Users Vulnerable to "Cybercasing"

August 30, 2010
Photos and videos posted on Web sites such as Craigslist and Twitter can carry detailed information about where the images were taken, according to researchers at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). This may leave them vulnerable to "cybercasing," the use of geo-tagged information available online to mount attacks in the real world.

Geo-Tagging Study Featured in The New York Times and New Scientist

August 15, 2010
CBS, The New York Times, Good Morning America, and New Scientist  magazine have featured the work of researchers Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer. The researchers looked at geo-tagged videos and photos on the Internet that contain embedded longitude and latitude coordinates.

Orpheus Crutchfield Profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine

August 1, 2010
Orpheus Crutchfield, the executive director of the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT), was profiled in the August 1 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. BFOIT is an ICSI program that supports historically underrepresented ethnic minorities and women in technology. Through seminars hosted at UC Berkeley and ICSI, BFOIT inspires local high school and middle school students to pursue careers in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and information technology. The Chronicle profile highlighted Crutchfield's commitment to promoting diversity and encouraging youth.

Vern Paxson Quoted in MIT Technology Review

July 15, 2010
Vern Paxson of the Networking Group is quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on Internet security. The article describes recent attacks by botnets, groups of computers that are infected with viruses. These botnets are controlled remotely and are responsible for the vast majority of spam on the Internet. Networking's research on botnets has been featured in New Scientist magazine.

Read the Technology Review article here >>

Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt Receive GECCO Best Paper Award

July 7, 2010
Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt, DAAD-sponsored postdoctoral fellows in the Algorithms Group, received the best paper award in the Parallel and Evolutionary Systems track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in July. Three papers co-authored by Sudholt were nominated for best paper awards. DAAD-program alum Tobias Friedrich received an award in the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization track.

Meeting Diarist Presented at Research@Intel 2010 Day

June 30, 2010
ICSI research in speaker diarization was presented at the Research@Intel 2010 Day on June 30. Speech Group researchers Adam Janin, Gerald Friedland, and ICSI Director Nelson Morgan presented the Meeting Diarist, a tool that recognizes who is speaking and what is being said, and allows users to search for relevant parts of a meeting's transcript.

Watch the presentation here >>

PC Mag featured the presentation in an article about the event >>

Richard Karp and Eran Halperin Invited to Give Talks at Three International Conferences

June 15, 2010
Algorithms Group members have been invited to give talks at three international conferences this summer. Group leader Richard Karp gave a keynote talk at the Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, held in New York City in June, and Eran Halperin was invited to give talks at the 7th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, in Rome in May and at the 10th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics in Liverpool in September.

Charles Fillmore Interviewed in Review of Cognitive Linguistics

June 15, 2010
An interview with Professor Charles Fillmore, the director of ICSI's FrameNet Project, will appear in this year's Review of Cognitive Linguistics. The interview, Discussing Frame Semantics: The State of the Art by József Andor, comments on Fillmore's leading role in frame semantics and goes into recent developments in the field.

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