Previous Talks at ICSI
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Herve Bourlard, Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence (IDIAAP) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL):
"Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Processing Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Recognition"
(Friday, December 1, 2000)
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Michael Kleinschmidt, Medical Physics Group, University of Oldenburg:
"Automatic Classification of Acoustic Signals Based on Psychoacoustic and Neurophysiological Knowledge"
(Tuesday, December 5, 2000)
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Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain:
"Monitoring and Traffic Classification Tool for Analysing the Use of Network Services"
(Wednesday, November 15, 2000)
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Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University, Department of Computer Systems:
"Stored Program Routers"
(Friday, October 20, 2000)
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Catherine Boutremans (and co-author Jean-Yves Le Boudec), EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne):
"Adaptive Delay Aware Error Control for Internet Telephony"
(Wednesday, October 11, 2000)
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Prof. Gerhard Goos, Universität Karlsruhe:
"Optimizing Object-Oriented Programs"
(Thursday, September 14, 2000)
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Harry Printz, IBM Watson Research Center:
"Confusability"
(Monday, September 11, 2000)
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Prof. Carey Williamson, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan:
"Simulation Evaluation of Web Proxy Caching Hierarchies"
(Monday, August 28, 2000)
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David Johnson, International Computer Science Institute:
"Why Doesn't My Computer Work"
(Wednesday, July 19, 2000)
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Professor Reinhard Klette, CITR Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand:
"Multigrid Convergence and Image Analysis"
(Tuesday, July 11, 2000)
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Max Garagnani, Open University:
"Pre-processing inner-outer belief axioms for persuasive discourse plans"
(Wednesday, July 5, 2000)
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Robert Porzel, European Media Lab:
"NLP and AI related research within Deep Map"
(Friday, May 19, 2000)
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Jordan Cohen, Dragon Systems, Inc.:
"Audio Mining"
(Friday, April 28, 2000)
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Joachim Diederich, Machine Learning Research Centre:
"THE TRUTH IS IN THERE: Rule-Extraction From Trained Artificial Neural Networks for Data Mining and Natural Language Processing"
(Friday, April 3, 2000)
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Joern Altmann, University of California, Berkeley/HP:
"End-User's Response to Usage-Based Service Plans"
(Thursday, March 16, 2000)
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Manfred Schroeder, University of Goettingen, Germany:
"Number Theory in Physics and Music"
(Friday, March 3, 2000)
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Ronald W. Ferguson, Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University:
"Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in Diagrams"
(Monday, February 28, 2000)
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Thomas Barkowsky, University of Hamburg - Department for Informatics:
"Discrete Curve Evolution: Shape Simplification in Maps"
(Thursday, February 24, 2000)
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Anand Venkataraman, Massey University:
"A Statistical Model for Word Discovery in Fluent Child-Directed Speech"
(Thursday, February 17, 2000)
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Christian Freksa, University of Hamburg. Currently ICSI and BISC (UCBerkeley)
"Communicating with Autonomous Mobile Robots by Means of Schematic Maps"
(Tuesday, February 8, 2000)
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Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida:
"Towards Networks with Cognitive Packets"
(Wednesday, January, 26th, 2000)
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Volker Hilt, University of Mannheim:
"Generic Scheme for the Recording of Interactive Media Streams"
(Thursday, January 27, 2000)
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Pat Hayes, U. West Florida:
"Outline of a Computational Account of Consciousness."
(Friday, January 14, 2000)
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José del R. Millán, Inst. for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Ispra, Italy:
"EEG-based Recognition of Mental States for Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces"
(Friday, January 7, 2000)
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Wai-tian (Dan) Tan, UC Berkeley:
"Video Multicast using Layered FEC and Scalable Compression"
(Monday, December 13, 1999)
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Matt Franklin, Xerox PARC:
"An Efficient Public Key Traitor Tracing Scheme"
(Wednesday, December 8, 1999)
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Martin Isenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
"Efficient Encodings for Surfaces with Properties"
(Friday, October 29, 1999)
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Cynthia Thompson, Stanford University:
"Semantic Lexicon Acquisition for Learning Natural Language Interfaces"
(Wednesday, October 20, 1999)
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Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL):
"Resource Allocation in Networks using Constraints and Agents"
(Tuesday, October 19, 1999)
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Andrew Kehler, SRI International:
"Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar"
(Wednesday, October 13, 1999)
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Prof. Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI and I-vg.com:
"Internet Virtual Galleries: A Technology, a Service and a Product"
(Tuesday, August 17, 1999)
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Professor Martin Kersten, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
"An Impressionist Monet Exhibit for Multimedia Index Services on the Web"
(Tuesday, August 10, 1999)
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John Bridle, Dragon Systems, United Kingdom:
"A Trainable Production Model of the Phonetic Segments-Acoustics Relationship"
(Wednesday, August 4, 1999)
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Prof. Edmundo de Souza e Silva, UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janiero:
"The TANGRAM-II Environment for Modeling Computer Communication Systems"
(Tuesday, July 27, 1999)
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Dr. Detlef Schoder, ICSI:
"Perception of Risk Factors in Electronic Commerce --
Empirical Evidence from Germany"
(Friday, July 9, 1999)
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Prof. Thomas Christaller, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology:
"Artificial Intelligence -- What is it all about?"
(Wednesday, July 7, 1999)
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Dirk Sturzebecher, Technical University of Berlin:
"MACS: A Modular Framework for Collaborative Applications"
(Friday, July 2, 1999)
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Brad Karp, ACIRI / Harvard University:
"GPSR: Greedy Perimeter-State Routing for Mobile Networks"
(Monday, June 28, 1999)
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Rolf Oppliger, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology and Systems (BFI):
"Security in Electronic Commerce"
(Tuesday, June 22, 1999)
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Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology:
"Recent Activities in Speech Recognition and Synthesis at
the Tokyo Institute of Technology"
(Monday, June 21, 1999)
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Jordan Cohen, Dragon Systems, Newton, Massachusetts:
"Progress in speech recognition: Lessons from Astronomy and Biology"
(Friday, May 28, 1999)
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Wolfgang Frohberg, Alcatel:
"Evolution of Telecommunications - Trends and Issues from an
European Manufacturers Viewpoint"
(Tuesday & Thursday, May 4 & 6, 1999)
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Martha Stone Palmer, University of Pennsylvania:
"Constraining Computational Lexical Semantics"
(Thursday, April 29, 1999)
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Dr. Jerry R. Hobbs, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International:
"A Framework for Interpreting Discourse by Abduction
and its Implementability in the SHRUTI Connectionist Architecture"
(Thursday, April 22, 1999)
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Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin and GMD Fokus:
"The IBMS Project: goals, selected aspects of protocol
architecture and testbed description."
(Friday, April 16, 1999)
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Reza Rejaie, USC/ISI:
"An End-to-end Architecture for Quality Adaptive Streaming
Applications in Best-effort Networks"
(Wednesday, April 7, 1999)
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Prof. Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe:
"Verification of Compilers"
(Thursday, March 11, 1999)
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Reinhold Eberhardt, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology 3, Ulm:
"A Quality of Service (QoS) Management Architecture to support
teletraining and distance learning applications"
(Friday, March 12, 1999)
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Hans L. Cycon, FHTW Berlin:
"Wavelet Transforms and Applications to Still Images and
Video Compression"
(Friday, February 26, 1999)
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Yair Bartal, Bell Labs:
"Flow Control: Local strategies for achieving global objectives"
(Friday, February 19, 1999)
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Frank Bauernoeppel, DResearch GmbH, Berlin:
"TeleObserver - Video Transmission Over GSM Networks"
(Friday, February 12, 1999)
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Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University, Australia:
"On Complexity Characteristics of Some Number Theoretic Problems"
(Friday, January 29, 1999)
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Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim:
"TeCo3D - 3D TeleCollaboration using VRML and Java"
(Thursday, January 21, 1999)
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Sudhir Aggarwal, SUNY, Binghamton, New York:
"Quality of Service for Multicast Conferences"
(Monday, January 11, 1999)
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Jan Puzicha, University of Bonn, Computer Science Department:
"Multiscale Annealing for Texture Segmentation, Color Quantization and Image Retrieval"
(Monday, November 23, 1998)
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Hinrich Schuetze, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center:
"Lexical Ambiguity and Information Retrieval"
(Friday, November 6, 1998)
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Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich:
"The Networked Competence Center for Applied Research and Development in Electronic Commerce"
(Thursday, October 22, 1998)
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Helena Szczerbicka, University of Bremen:
"Performance Analysis of an Avionics-Interface (a case study)"
(Friday, October 16, 1998)
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Jonathan Bright, Andromedia:
"High-end Website Activity Analysis"
(Thursday, October 15, 1998)
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Dr. Kai Rannenberg, University of Freiburg:
"Multilateral Security Technology - Concepts and Examples"
(Monday, September 21, 1998)
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Boris Padovan, University of Freiburg:
"AVALANCHE - Simulating Value Chain Coordination with Artificial Life Agents"
(Friday, September 25, 1998)
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Jurg Nievergelt, ETH Zurich and ICSI, Berkeley:
"Half-a-century of Computer Chess: The Longest Running Experiment in Knowledge Engineering"
(Thursday, Sept 3, 1998)
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Joachim M. Buhmann, Computer Science Department, University of Bonn:
"Unsupervised Learning for Robust Texture Segmentation"
(Tuesday, September 1, 1998)
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Luigia Carlucci Aiello, DIS, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza:
"Research in Knowledge Representation at DIS: Some results in Nonmonotonic Reasoning"
(Tuesday, August 25, 1998)
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Dr. Ulrich Kohl, IBM Almaden Research Center:
"Security for the Digital Library - Protecting Documents Rather Than Channels"
(Wednesday, August 19, 1998)
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Herwig Unger, University of Rostock:
"Overview of the Web Operating System (WOS) Project in Quebec, Rostock and Sydney"
(Tuesday, August 18, 1998)
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Mario Baldi, Politecnico di Torino:
"End-to-end Delay of Videoconferencing over Packet Networks"
(Thursday, August 13, 1998)
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Prof. Giovanni Coray, EPFL Lausanne/Switzerland:
"Parallel Computing in Switzerland"
(Tuesday, August 11, 1998)
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Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP
(Dalle Molle Institute of Perceptual Intelligence), Martigny,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland:
"Current Research Directions and Speaker Verification at IDIAP"
(Monday, August 10, 1998)
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Andreas Müller, Networks Group, ICSI:
"3D Visualization of an Queryable Art-Database on the Internet"
(Thursday, August 6, 1998)
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Prof. Juan Quemada, Technical University of Madrid:
"CSCW Tele-Service Creation with ISABEL"
(Tuesday, July 28, 1998)
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Claudio Fleiner, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory:
"IP Telephony - Hype or Reality?"
Slides
(Wednesday, July 22, 1998)
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Pat Churchland:
"Ten Unsolved Problems in Neuroscience" (Videotaped talk, recorded 4/23/98)
(Tuesday, June 2, 1998)
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Vladimir Minenko, ICSI, Networks Group:
"Component Model Reflector - a concept for scalable remote access and synchronous collaboration under Java Foundation Classes"
(Thursday, May 21, 1998)
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Domenico Ferrari, Center for Research on the Applications of Telematics
to Organizations and Society (CRATOS):
"Charging for QoS"
(Thursday, May 21, 1998)
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Norbert A. Streitz, Darmstadt, Germany,
GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology,
IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute:
"Roomware and Cooperative Buildings: Extending the Scope of Interaction and Cooperation beyond Desktops"
(Thursday, April 30, 1998)
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John K. Bates, Time/Space Systems:
"Using Waveform Information Vectors (WIVS) in Multi-level Speech Perception"
(Monday, April 27, 1998)
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Karl Aberer, GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany:
"Structured Documents and their Manipulation in Database Systems"
(Monday, April 27, 1998)
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Arnd Steinmetz and Frank Nack,
GMD-IPSI, Mobile Interactive Media, Darmstadt:
"MPEG7: Current State and First Possible Applications"
(Friday, April 24, 1998)
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Hans Mittendorfer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria:
"City and Tourism Network"
(Tuesday, April 14, 1998)
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Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy:
"CDPA: a packet approach for third generation wireless cellular systems"
(April 2, 1998)
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Su-Lin Wu, ICSI/UC Berkeley:
"Incorporating Information from Syllable-length Time Scales into Automatic Speech Recognition"
(April 1, 1998)
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Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Computer
Architecture Department:
"Cell Discarding Mechanism with Minimum Flow Quality"
(March 26, 1998)
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Bernhard von Stengel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich:
"New Maximal Numbers of Equilibria in Bimatrix Games"
(March 19, 1998)
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Leo V. Pfefferer, Siemens Corporate Technology:
"Information and Knowledge Management with Context Visualization"
(March 3, 1998)
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Juergen Sieck, FHTW Berlin:
"Virtual Reality in Regional Information Systems and Architecture"
(March 5, 1998)
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Lev Below & Satish Ramakrishnan, PointCast, Inc.:
"Information Broadcast in the Internet - The PointCast Business Network Technology"
(February 19, 1998)
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Joe Grady, University of California at Berkeley - Department of Linguistics:
"Primary Metaphor: Image, Response, and Consciousness"
(February 3, 1998)
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Hartmut Chodura, Frauenhofer Institute for Computer Graphics:
"High Quality Audio for Internet Applications"
(February 2, 1998)
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Raimund Seidel, Universitaet des Saarlandes:
"On the Exact Query Complexity of Planar Point Location"
(January 29, 1998)
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Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University:
"A Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model"
(December 19, 1997)
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Wolfgang Effelsberg, Christian Tschudin, and Volker Turau, ICSI:
"Multicasting Multimedia Streams with Active Networks"
(December 11, 1997)
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Christian Becker, University of Frankfurt, Germany:
"MAQS - Management for Adaptive QoS-enabled Services"
(December 4, 1997)
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Dr. Franklin Kuo, GWcom Inc.:
"Venture Capital in California"
(November 25, 1997)
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Dr. Takeshi Nishida, NEC C&C Research Lab:
"Multimedia Internet Middleware Research in NEC"
(November 21, 1997)
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Arno Puder, ICSI and Kay Roemer, University of Frankfurt, Germany:
"CORBA in Theory and Practice"
(November 6, 1997)
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Ethem Alpaydin, Bogazici University, Turkey:
"REx: Learning A Rule and Exceptions"
(October 30, 1997)
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Olivier Verscheure:
"Interactive Video Services over ATM Networks: U-QoS Optimization"
(October 10, 1997)
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Christian-M. Hamann:
"Kohonen Map as a Visualization Tool for the Analysis of Protein Sequences: Multiple Alignments, Domains and Segments of Secondary Structures"
(September 30, 1997)
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Prof. Luciano da Fontoura Costa:
"Neuromorphometry - Brief Review, New Techniques and Perspectives"
(September 26, 1997)
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Cliff Stoll:
"Stalking the Wily Hacker - 10 Years Later"
(September 24, 1997)
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Sean O. Nuallain:
"Visualization of Natural Language: The Spoken Image System"
(September 19, 1997)
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Christian-M. Hamann:
"Positional Logic Algebra - PLA - A Fascinating Alternative Approach"
(September 18, 1997)
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Rainer Lienhart:
"Automatic Content Analysis of Digital Video"
(September 12, 1997)
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Prof. Giorgio Valle:
"How Information Technology Could Support Dynamic Ridesharing: The VALICO - VAn pooLIng for COmmuters - Proposal to the European Community"
(September 12, 1997)
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Kyrill A. Fischer:
"Investigating Psychoacoustic Masking in Speech"
(September 11, 1997)
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Matthias Anlauff:
"Supporting the Production and Presentation of Executable Programming Language Descriptions with Montages"
(September 5, 1997)
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Gianfranco Mascari:
"Models of Computation: Common Foundations and Applications from Logic, Physics and Biology?"
(August 28, 1997)
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Bernd J. Kraemer:
"Adding Synchronisation Constraints to CORBA IDL"
(August 28, 1997)
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Prof. Dr. Peter Stucki:
"Creating Digital Hard Copies of 3D Objects: An Interdisciplinary Research Project at the University of Zurich"
(August 26, 1997)
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Avi Wigderson:
"P=BPP unless E has sub-exponential circuits: Derandomizing the XOR Lemmaerson"
(August 26, 1997)
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Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfinger:
"Efficiency of Forward Error Control Applied to MPEG Encoded Video Streams: Analytical QoS Evaluations"
(August 18, 1997)
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Prof. Erich J. Neuhold:
"Distributed Open Multimedia Databases: The Universal Information Repository"
(August 14, 1997)
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Prof. Gul A. Agha:
"Abstracting Actor Interactions: Requirements for a High-Level Model of Concurrency"
(August 7, 1997)
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Stefania Gnesi:
"A Formal Verification Environment for Concurrent Systems Design"
(August 5, 1997)
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Merideth Gattis:
"Mapping Concepts to Space in Visual Reasoning"
(August 4, 1997)
- Assaf Schuster:
"Millipede - Easy Parallel Computing on Distributed Clusters"
(July 30, 1997)
- Wolf Zimmermann:
"Generating Robust Class Hierarchies"
(July 24, 1997)
- Moni Naor:
"Number-Theoretic Constructions of Efficient Pseudo-random Functions
and Other Cryptographic Primitives" (July 22, 1997)
- Jacek Mandziuk:
"Incremental Class Learning approach and its application to
Handwritten Digit Recognition"
(July 17, 1997)
- Augusto Ciuffoletti:
"Writing a UTC Time Server in Java"
(July 15, 1997)
- Andres Albanese:
"Berkeley/Milano Teleseminar Series:
First Real-Virtual Conference for Global Business"
(July 14, 1997)
- Wolfgang Reisig:
"Distributed Algorithms' Modeling and Verification"
(July 10, 1997)
- Dr. Christian M. Hamann:
"Positional Logic Algebra -- A fascinating alternative approach"
(June 24, 1997)
- Dr. Pierre Kuonen:
"Parallel Computing Research at the Computer Science Department"
(June 23, 1997)
- Dr. Ulrich Baum:
"Object-oriented Development of Embedded Real-Time Systems using
ASCET-SD" (June 17, 1997)
- Ina Schieferdecker:
"Performance Testing of Network Components" (June 6, 1997)
- Danny Raz: "A Modular Analysis of Network
Transmission Protocols" (May 20, 1997)
- Lutz M. Wegner: "A Visual Interface
for Synchronous Collaboration and Negotiated Transactions" (May 15,
1997)
- Ben Gold: "A Brief History of Early Work
on Digital Signal Processing" (May 8, 1997)
- Christian Tschudin: "Instruction
Based Communications and its application to
Data Encoding and the Programmable Internet" (April 29, 1997)
- Johann Schumann: "Automatic
Verification of Authentication Protocols" (April 24, 1997)
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Ronitt Rubinfeld: "Short Paths in Expander Graphs" (April 10, 1997)
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Winfrid Schneeweiss: "Petri Nets for Dependability Modeling: Synthesis in
4 Phases" (April 8, 1997)
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Dominik Dersch: "Speaker Models Designed from Complete Data Sets: A New
Approach to Text-Independent Speaker Identification
and Verification" (April 1, 1997)
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Martin Ruettgers: "Differential Evolution: Optimization of Real
Scheduling Problems"
(March 24, 1997)
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Bernd Fischer: "NORA/HAMMR: Making Deduction-Based Software Component Retrieval
Practical" (March 21, 1997)
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John Platt: "Convolutional Neural Networks For Computer Vision"
(March 18, 1997)
- Karl A. Froeschl:
"A Generic Data Model for Data Harmonization
in Statistical Information Processing"
(March 3, 1997)
- Stefan Noll, Hartmut Chodura:
"High Quality Audio for Distributed Environments"
(March 3, 1997)
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Multicast for Media: An International Workshop (February 28, 1997)
- Merrick Furst: "Graphplan: Fast
Planning Through Planning Graph Analysis" (February 28, 1997)