ICSI: Previous Talks

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

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