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Richard Karp Selected for the CRA's Council for the Computing Community Consortium

June 15, 2007
Dick Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, was selected by the Computing Research Association (CRA) to serve a one-year term on its Council for the Computing Community Consortium. The Council will provide leadership to the CRA while it works with industry partners on determining the direction of future research projects.

New Edition of Speech and Audio Signal Processing to Be Published

May 15, 2007
Wiley Press has agreed to publish a new edition of "Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music", a textbook previously written by ICSI's Nelson Morgan and MIT's Ben Gold, with added material that will be written over the next year by ICSI alum Dan Ellis (now at Columbia University).

Dilek Hakkani-Tur Wins Best Paper Award

May 1, 2007
Speech Communication awarded the 2007 best paper award to Dilek Hakkani-Tur of ICSI's Speech Group, Gokhan Tur of SRI, and Robert E. Schapire of Princeton for their paper Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding. The paper was originally published in the February 2005 edition of Speech Communication.

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