ICSI Gazette, Spring 2014

Letter from Ron Kay Ron Kay, ICSI’s first acting director, worked with Norbert Szyperski to found the institute The most appropriate retrospective of ICSI’s 25 years would be to identify the major scientific ideas that have been pursued and show their impact upon computer science.  Not qualified to do this, I will leave that to some future historian.  What I will attempt is to call attention to some of the contributions to ICSI not subject to the best paper award.  Read more.

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Featured Fellow: Norbert Szyperski

Norbert Szyperski has never been an ICSI employee, but in many ways, he is our most important alumnus. It was through his conversations with Ron Kay, a former IBM Research manager, that the idea for an international computer science institute crystalized; it was his lobbying that convinced the German government and German companies to fund the institute; and it was his vision that was realized more than twenty-five years ago when ICSI was inaugurated in October of 1988. But ICSI is certainly not Szyperski’s first achievement, nor his last.

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Featured Research: California Connects

A 63-year-old woman interviewed by artificial intelligence researcher Blanca Gordo described her confusion about and frustration with the technology at a new job as digital dissonance: “Things are changing so much in the digital world, using the computer and the Internet… it’s assumed that you know about this, that you know about all of these new applications that are out there, and you don’t know…. I did my best to keep up but I couldn’t keep up.”

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• NSF Funds Bro Center of Expertise to Support Cybersecurity Operations in Research and Education

• ICSI Launches Broala, a Services Company For Its Popular Open-Source Network Security System Bro

• Researchers Develop Technique to Identify Spam Twitter Accounts

• In Memoriam: Charles Fillmore

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