News

^{November 20, 2012}
Dr. Nikki Mirghafori, a senior research scientist in the Speech Group at ICSI, attended the prestigious National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference November 14-17 in Irvine, California. Participants in the conference, which is held once a year, are selected through a highly competitive process and come from a range of scientific backgrounds.

^{October 15, 2012}
ICSI has announced the appointment of six members to its board of trustees, growing the diverse group of academic and corporate leaders to 16 members. The expanded board held its annual meeting on Friday, when the new trustees officially assumed their duties.

^{September 25, 2012}
ICSI, the University of California, San Diego, and George Mason University have received a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the roles played by economics and social interactions in Internet security. While security research has tended to focus on the technologies that enable and defend against attacks, the new project emphasizes the profits that motivate the majority of Internet attacks, the elaborate marketplaces that support them, and the relationships among cybercriminals, who rely upon each other for services and expertise.

^{August 13, 2012}
Speech Group leader Nelson Morgan commented on speech recognition technology in a Marketplace Tech podcast. He said improvements to speech recognition technology are slow to arrive slowly because research relies on algorithms that have been used for decades.