In April 2012, the Hewlett Foundation hosted a competition on Kaggle, the predictive modeling competition site, to find the most effective system for automated grading of essays. These systems are based on principles of artificial intelligence, and those of us in the artificial intelligence community are always excited to see useful applications of our work. Our excitement, however, should be tempered by the recognition of some unintended consequences of automated essay grading.
At our annual BEARS Open House Thursday, February 14, several group directors gave brief talks overviewing recent work. In case you missed it, here are slides from the talks.
In case you missed it at our open house last Thursday, check out this video of the real-time object detection system demonstrated by Daniel Goehring, a DAAD postdoc in our Audio and Multimedia Group. It's able to quickly detect household objects - and can even identify a can of Pringles! The video is below; here's the abstract:
ICSI held its annual open house on Thursday, February 14 in conjunction with the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium. Group directors gave overviews of their groups' work, and researchers demonstrated their latest results in network measurement and security, multimedia analysis, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and speech and audio analysis. Below are photos from the event:
Every year, we host an open house in conjunction with the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). This year, BEARS is on Thursday, February 14. Group directors will be giving overviews of their groups' work, and senior researchers will be on hand throughout to talk about and demonstrate their research. The open house starts at 2 p.m. - we hope you can make it!
The abstracts for all our demos are on the events page, but here are a few previews:
At the Open House, we announced two new research groups, one to focus on multimedia analysis and retrieval and one to nurture nascent research efforts that don't fit in elsewhere at ICSI. Read more in the press release.
Four visitors from Finland recently joined our Networking and Security Group: Andrei Gurtov, Dmitriy Kuptsov, Andrey Lukyanenko, and André Schumacher. They are here as part of ICSI's Finnish visiting program, which is funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation through Aalto University and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
ICSI is pleased to announce that, as of January 1, 2013, Professor Vern Paxson is the director of Networking and Security research. Paxson was previously a senior researcher in Networking. He takes the role of director over from Professor Scott Shenker, who directs the recently established Research Initiatives area and serves as chief scientist. Networking and Security research scientists will conduct research on Internet security issues, including investigating the underground economy.
ICSI is pleased to announce that, as of January 1, 2013, Steven Wegmann is the new leader of the ICSI Speech Group. Professor Nelson Morgan, the founder and leader of the group for more than 24 years, will be focusing on research activities, passing on the leadership of the team to Steven. After earlier collaboration with Morgan and his team, Steven formally joined the group in 2011. For nearly two decades prior to that, he pursued speech research at companies such as Dragon, VoiceSignal, and Nuance. He received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Warwick, and his early work was in algebraic topology. Steven’s recent research interest is in the analysis of the failings of statistical models commonly used in speech recognition. For more, see the news brief.
Guest post by Omoju Miller
At our annual BEARS Open House Thursday, February 14, several group directors gave brief talks overviewing recent work. In case you missed it, here are slides from the talks.
Every year, we host an open house in conjunction with the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). This year, BEARS is on Thursday, February 14. Group directors will be giving overviews of their groups' work, and senior researchers will be on hand throughout to talk about and demonstrate their research. The open house starts at 2 p.m. - we hope you can make it!
Four visitors from Finland recently joined our Networking and Security Group: Andrei Gurtov, Dmitriy Kuptsov, Andrey Lukyanenko, and André Schumacher. They are here as part of ICSI's Finnish visiting program, which is funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation through Aalto University and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
ICSI is pleased to announce that, as of January 1, 2013, Professor 
ICSI is pleased to announce that, as of January 1, 2013,