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 the network topology of the World Wide Web, as seen as a network of web pages connected by hyperlinks. The Jellyfish and Bow Tie models are two attempts at modeling the topology of hyperlinks between web pages. Models ...

network security Network security consists of the policies, processes and practices adopted to prevent, detect and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources. Network security involves th ...

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

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...

, 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 in Alexandria, Virginia) 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 Intern ...

, 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 Vern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from tr ...

, 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), f ...

. * Professor Jerry Feldman is the head of the

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

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 is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate t ...

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

Speech Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are th ...

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 compu ...

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 Turing A ...

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, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, is an alumna and former head of the

Computer Architecture In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the ...

Group. * *

IEEE Internet Award IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award established by the IEEE in June 1999. The award is sponsored by Nokia Corporation. It may be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the ad ...

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. *

winner

Mark Handley Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. He is best known for his play '' Idioglossia'', which was later pro ...

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

References

External links

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