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Professor George Lakoff Featured in Chronogram

June 7, 2006
Professor George Lakoff, of UC Berkeley and ICSI's Neural Theory of Language project, is featured in the July 2006 issue of Chronogram, a Hudson Valley, New York based magazine of "events and ideas". He was interviewed for the magazine by Loma Tychostup on his theories about the use of linguistic frames in politics.

ICSI Speech Technology Excelled at NIST Evaluations

June 5, 2006

From Molecule to Metophor

June 1, 2006
From Molecule to Metaphor, a new book by Professor Jerome A. Feldman, ICSI's first Director and current research scientist, was released in June 2006 by MIT Press. The book describes in detail the ICSI NTL group's theory on the neural basis of human language and thought. Early endorsements of the book suggest it may have a profound impact on the field of Cognitive Science.

Sally Floyd Cited as Female Expert in Computing

March 23, 2006
In a letter to Nature magazine and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, a group of senior female technology professors named ICSI's Sally J. Floyd as one of three women who exemplify "outstanding female experts in computing and other fields". Floyd was cited for her work on core Internet technologies.

XORP 1.2 Extends Open-Source Routing to Windows

March 8, 2006

ICSI Hosted an Open House in Conjunction with BEARS

February 23, 2006
On February 23rd, ICSI hosted an open house in conjunction with BEARS 2006, UC Berkeley's annual EECS research symposium. In addition to posters outlining various research activities at ICSI, there was a demonstration of a speech recognition application that provides market information to Tamil-speaking Indian crop growers, and two featured talks.

Commercial-Grade Router Built on XORP

February 22, 2006

Color Perception Research in PNAS

January 14, 2006

Dr. Eran Halperin Returns to ICSI

January 2, 2006
Dr. Eran Halperin, a former post-doc with Dr. Richard M. Karp of the Algorithms Group, returned to ICSI in January to be a full time research scientist. Dr. Halperin will be focusing on bioinformatics, a field that utilizes computational algorithms in biological research. He is particularly interested in genetics, haplotypes and disease association

ICSI Signs MOU with China Scholarship Council

December 15, 2005
ICSI has signed a memo-of-understanding (MOU) with the China Scholarship Council to create a new international visitors' program--"Chinese Scholars at ICSI" (CSI). The CSI program will bring up to ten young and upcoming Chinese scientists to ICSI each year, and will emphasize collaborative research initiatives with sponsoring commercial partners.

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