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Vern Paxson Named a Fellow of the ACM

January 8, 2007
Vern Paxson of the Networking Group is now a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). A January 8, 2007 press release from the ACM named Paxson as one of 41 fellows for 2006. He was recognized for his contributions to Internet measurement and intrusion detection.

New Board Members and Corporate Officers at ICSI

October 13, 2006
ICSI's Board of Trustees met on October 13th, and voted on changes to Board membership and corporate officers at ICSI. Professor Stuart Russell replaces Jitendra Malik as ex officio board representative from the University of California, Berkeley's Computer Science department, and Professor Javier Aracil of Spain's Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid fills the board seat of recently deceased Mr. Pedro Lizcano.

ICSI Hosts Annual Research Review

October 13, 2006
ICSI hosted its annual Research Review on October 13th, along with a book signing party honoring Professor Jerry Feldman's new book, From Molecule to Metaphor. Professor Feldman was also honored by ICSI's Board of Trustees with the 2006 Distinguished Service Award during the Board of Trustees Meeting that morning. He was recognized for the guidance and expertise he provided during 10 years as ICSI's first Director, and his continued service to the Institute as a scientist in the AI Group.

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh Featured on Seedmagazine.com

September 21, 2006
Research by ICSI Alum Lisa Aziz-Zadeh (now at University of Southern California) on mirror neurons was featured in a September 21, 2006 article on seedmagazine.com. Aziz-Zadeh uses fMRI technology to observe brain activity in subjects when they observe an action and when they read words describing that action - and her results show that the activity in the brain's premotor cortex is the same for both.

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