The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in

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. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation agreement with the

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, where several of its members hold faculty appointments.

Research areas

ICSI's research activities include

Internet architecture World Wide Web topology is distinct from Internet topology. While the former focuses on how web pages are interconnected through hyperlinks, the latter refers to the layout of network infrastructure like routers, ISPs, and backbone connections. ...

, network security, network routing, speech and speaker recognition, spoken and text-based

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

, computer vision, multimedia, privacy and biological system modeling.

Research groups and leaders

* The Institute's director i
Dr. Lea Shanley
* SIGCOMM Award winner Professor

Scott Shenker Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science ...

, one of th
most-cited authors in computer science
is the Chief Scientist and head of the New Initiatives group. * SIGCOMM Award winner Professor Vern Paxson, who leads network security efforts and who previously chaired the

Internet Research Task Force The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is an organization, overseen by the Internet Architecture Board, that focuses on longer-term research issues related to the Internet. A parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), foc ...

. * Professor Jerry Feldman is the head of the

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

Group. * Adjunct Professor Gerald Friedland is the head of the Audio and Multimedia Group. * Dr. Stella Yu is head of the

Computer Vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

Group. * Dr. Serge Egelman is head of th
Usable Security and Privacy
Group. * Dr. Steven Wegman is head of the

Speech Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...

Group.

Notable members and alumni

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the fi ...

and

Kyoto Prize The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...

winner Professor

Richard Karp Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turin ...

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

Group. * Professor

Krste Asanovic Krsto (Cyrillic script: Крсто), also Krste or Krǎstyo is a South Slavic masculine given name. * Krsto Papić, Croatian film director * Krsto Ungnad, Ban of Croatia *Krsto Zrnov Popović, Montenegrin soldier * Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian b ...

, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, is an alumna and former head of the Computer Architecture Group. * * IEEE Internet Award winner Sally Floyd; connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman; frame semantics and

construction grammar Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human ...

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 Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. Personal life In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. Career He is best known for his play ''Idioglos ...

founded the XORP open source router software project while at ICSI.

References

External links

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