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Rich Transcription Spring'05 Evaluation

June 15, 2005
Members of ICSI's Speech Group recently participated in the Rich Transcription Spring'05 evaluation, RT-05S, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This annual evaluation targets the automatic processing of audio recordings from meetings, establishing benchmarks in core recognition capabilities. ICSI submitted systems for both the speech transcription task (or "Speech-to-text") and the speaker segmentation and tracking task ("Speaker Diarization"), and peformed very well in both categories.

Research on Witty Worm in the News

June 2, 2005
Research on the Witty worm by Vern Paxson, Nick Weaver, and Abhishek Kumar continued to make headlines in June. After the write-up by Robert Lemos appeared online in late May, the research was highlighted on CNET news.com, ZDnet, monstersandcritics.com, New Scientist magazine and P2Pnet.net.

Press for Science Article on Color Naming Research

June 1, 2005

2005 Speaker Recognition Evaluation

May 27, 2005

Witty Worm Featured in Security Focus Online

May 24, 2005
A paper analyzing the Witty worm by ICSI security experts Vern Paxson and Nick Weaver, along with former ICSI intern Abhishek Kumar, was the focus of an article by Robert Lemos on Security Focus online on May 24, 2005.

Color Naming in PNAS

May 23, 2005

Professor Dan Klein is ICSI's Newest Faculty Associate

May 23, 2005
Professor Dan Klein of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Faculty is ICSI's newest Faculty Associate. Professor Klein's area of expertise is natural language processing, and he will be affiliated with the Speech Group.

Genetic Research Reviewed in MIT's Technology Review

May 22, 2005

Professor Wen Gao Named ICSI External Fellow

May 17, 2005

Eric Fosler-Lussier Named an ICSI External Fellow

April 21, 2005
Eric Fosler-Lussier has been named an ICSI External Fellow. He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Ohio State University. Fosler-Lussier is a former graduate student researcher and postdoctoral researcher with ICSI's Speech Group, and as an External Fellow will collaborate with ICSI on speech projects.

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