International Computer Science Institute

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International Computer Science Institute

Established| 1988
Focus| Computer science
President| Dr. Lea Shanley
Location|

Berkeley, California, United States

Website| [1]

The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, United States . Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointments.

## Contents

* 1 Research areas
* 2 Research groups and leaders
* 3 Notable members and alumni
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Research areas

ICSI's research activities include Internet architecture, network security, network routing, speech and speaker recognition, spoken and text-based natural language processing, computer vision, multimedia, privacy and biological system modeling.

## Research groups and leaders

* The Institute's director is Dr. Lea Shanley.[1]
* SIGCOMM Award[2] winner Professor Scott Shenker, one of the most-cited authors in computer science, is the Chief Scientist and head of the New Initiatives group.
* SIGCOMM Award[3] winner Professor Vern Paxson, who leads network security efforts and who previously chaired the Internet Research Task Force.
* Professor Jerry Feldman is the head of the Artificial Intelligence Group.
* Adjunct Professor Gerald Friedland is the head of the Audio and Multimedia Group.
* Dr. Stella Yu is head of the Computer Vision Group.
* Dr. Serge Egelman is head of the Usable Security and Privacy Group.
* Dr. Steven Wegman is head of the Speech Group.

## Notable members and alumni

* Turing Award[4] and Kyoto Prize[5] winner Professor Richard Karp is an alumnus and former head of the Algorithms Group.
* Professor Nelson Morgan is a former director and former head of the speech group.
* Professor Trevor Darrell is an alumnus and former head of the Computer Vision Group.
* Professor Krste Asanovic, an ACM Distinguished Scientist,[6] is an alumna and former head of the Computer Architecture Group.
*   * IEEE Internet Award[7] winner Sally Floyd; connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman; frame semantics and construction grammar pioneer Charles J. Fillmore and Collin F. Baker, who lead the FrameNet semantic parsing project; and Paul Kay, who published an influential study on the universality of color words.
* IEEE Internet Award winner Mark Handley founded the XORP open source router software project while at ICSI.

## References

1. ↑ "About ICSI". http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/about/index.html.
2. ↑ "SIGCOMM Award Winners". http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-awards.
3. ↑ "SIGCOMM Award Winners". http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-awards.
4. ↑ "Turing Award Winners". http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140.
5. ↑ "Kyoto Prize Laureates". http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/e_kp_lau_yea.html.
6. ↑ "ACM Names 54 Distinguished Members for Contributions to Computing". http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2011/distinguished-2011.
7. ↑ "IEEE Internet Award Winners". http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/internet_recipients.html.

## External links

* Web page

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