Social networks make it easy to instantly share information, photos, and videos online. For many people, this is a fun way to stay up to date with friends and family, but they may not realize the privacy implications of all this sharing.
ICSI scientist Gerald Friedland studies cybercasing, the use of online information to mount attacks in the real world, and, and recommends users consider the following before posting anything online.
1. Who can see/read this post? Public posts can be seen by anybody in the world, including your boss, governments, and even criminals. So think: Is the post appropriate for any audience?
2. Will my post offend people, and am I okay with the potential results of offending people? If the information in this post is shared with people I didn't anticipate sharing it with, will that cause any problems (for me, or for others mentioned/shown in my post)?
Jiao Zhang is visiting ICSI's Networking Group, where she works with group leader Scott Shenker on caching management in information-centric networks. She received her bachelor's degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2008, and she is now a graduate student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. 
Researchers have developed a method to identify rooms through audio recordings which were captured in them. Nils Peters, a DAAD-funded postdoctoral fellow, and Speech Group researchers Gerald Friedland and Howard Lei used audio recordings from seven different rooms – a bedroom, library, studio, two churches, great hall, and classroom – to develop an acoustic profile for each. These profiles were based on audio features that are frequently used by speech systems to automatically recognize words.
Every year, ICSI hosts postdoctoral fellows from Germany who are funded by the German Academic Exchange Program. In September, we welcomed the first four postdocs to arrive in this year's program: Michael Elberfeld, Christof Lang, Erik Rodner, and Daniel Warneke. They will be working on a variety of topics from theoretical algorithms to computer vision.
Last month, ICSI welcomed back one of its first employees: Chuck Wooters. This is Chuck’s third time at ICSI.