A few highlights from October 2012:

• Our annual Board of Trustees Meeting was held on October 12th, followed by our Research Review. Slide presentations and related publications for several of the talks have been posted on our blog for those who were unable to attend or just want to look at the topics more in-depth. Read the blog posts: Gerald Friedland's talk on multimedia research, Vern Paxson's talk on new security research, Eric Friedman's talk on brain network research, Srini Narayanan's talk on the Metanet project, and Richard Karp's talk about the relationship between ICSI and the Simons Institute, which he is leading.
• ICSI welcomed six new board members - read about them here.
• Researchers from ICSI attended several conferences including ACM Multimedia 2012, the 133th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Society, the ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM 2012), the MediaEval 2012 Workshop, and the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012).
• New publications for October 2012
• Speech Group researchers and their collaborators at UC Berkeley received distinctive mention at the MediaEval 2012 Workshop for their video location estimation system. Read more here.
• An article by Deputy Director and Speech Group leader Nelson Morgan on speech research appeared in Speech Technology magazine.
• Our September newsletter has been published.
• Talks at ICSI in October: Interactive Approaches to Video Lecture Assessment by Korbinian Riedhammer, Building Lexical Cognitive Networks for Web Corpora by Alexandros Potamianos, and Greedy Pursuits Algorithms for Representing Audio Signals by Gaël Richard.
• On our blog: An intro to ICSI (slide presentation) by Roberto Pieraccini, An Inside View of the Online Pharmaceuticals Industry, The Room Within the Sound, and an introduction to a new visitor, Jiao Zhang.

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