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Networking and Security researcher Johanna Amann wins Community Contribution Award at ACM IMC 2017

ICSI researcher Johanna Amann, along with co-authors Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Lexi Brent, Georg Carle, and Ralph Holz won the Community Contribution Award for their work on " Mission Accomplished?

ABC National Radio in Australia interviews ICSI researcher Steven Bird

ICSI researcher Steven Bird was recently interviewed by ABC National Radio in Australia.

Scott Shenker Receives Berkeley Visionary of the Year Award

ICSI Chief Scientist Scott Shenker

Paper on Detecting Spearfishing Awarded Facebook's Internet Defense Prize

The paper “Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings” won Facebook’s Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver, BC. Co-author Vern Paxson is head of networking at security research at ICSI.

50th Anniversary of Turing Award

Richard M. KarpThis year marks 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."

Study: Many free Android VPN apps not secure

A recent study by researchers at CSIRO, ICSI, UC Berkeley, and University of New South Wales showed that many free Android VPN apps are not actually secure. The study looked at close to 300 apps, and found that 84% leaked traffic, while 18% didn't use encryption at all. Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, a scientist at ICSI and IMDEA who is a co-author of the study, was not surprised by the results, and in fact told The Verge that "the shocking fact was that people trust this kind of technology."

Vision Researchers Win Best Paper Award at Electronic Imaging 2017 Conference

Vision Researchers Stella Yu, Marius Pedersen, and Seyed Ali Amirshahi won the best paper award for their work on "Image Quality Assessment by Comparing CNN Features between Images (JIST-first)" at this year's Electronic Imaging Conference's Image Quality and System Performance track in Burlingame, California.

DTL Interviews with Irwin Reyes and Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez

ICSI researchers Irwin Reyes and Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez were recently interviewed at Data Transparency Labs 2016.

New ICSI PI Wins PECASE Award

Bérénice Mettler, a new vision researcher at ICSI, is one of 102 scientists honored in with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the federal government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.