A few highlights from September at ICSI:

• ICSI, along with UC San Diego and George Mason University, received a $10 million grant to fund research on the human and economic elements of cybercrime. The proejct received press coverage, including articles on The U.S. News University Connection, The Daily Cal, Network World, DFI News, Business News, and Phys.org.
• Another project started, which focuses on Internet censorship by nation states.
• ICSI research was featured in an EE Times article by Rick Merritt.
• Algorithms Group leader Richard Karp moderated a panel discussion on Alan Turing's work.
• ICSI researchers attended conferences including Interspeech, RAID, and CSLP.
• Larry Heck from Microsoft gave a talk at ICSI titled "The Conversational Web". There were two other public talks at ICSI this month: Eran Halperin of ICSI gave a talk on DNA and disease, and Gerald Friedland, also from ICSI, gave a talk about cybercasing. The Speech Group hosted lunch talks (for members of the group) by Sunder Ram Krishnan of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Matthew Aylett of University of Edinburgh, Informatics.
• Several new ICSI research papers were published.
• On the blog: introducing four DAAD postdocs who arrived in September, and the return of Chuck Wooters.

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