International Computer Science Institute

ICSI's research activities include Internet architecture, network security, network routing, speech and speaker recognition, spoken and text-based natural language processing, computer vision, multimedia, privacy and biological system modeling. ==Research groups and leaders==

• The Institute's director is Dr. Lea Shanley. • SIGCOMM Award winner Professor Scott Shenker, one of the most-cited authors in computer science, is the Chief Scientist and head of the New Initiatives group. • SIGCOMM Award winner Professor Vern Paxson, who leads network security efforts and who previously chaired the Internet Research Task Force. • Professor Jerry Feldman is the head of the Artificial Intelligence Group. • Adjunct Professor Gerald Friedland is the head of the Audio and Multimedia Group. • Dr. Stella Yu is head of the Computer Vision Group. • Dr. Serge Egelman is head of the Usable Security and Privacy Group. • Dr. Steven Wegman is head of the Speech Group. == Notable members and alumni ==

• Turing Award and Kyoto Prize winner Professor Richard Karp is an alumnus and former head of the Algorithms Group. • Professor Nelson Morgan is a former director and former head of the speech group. • Professor Trevor Darrell is an alumnus and former head of the Computer Vision Group. • Professor Krste Asanovic, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, is an alumna and former head of the Computer Architecture Group. • • IEEE Internet Award winner Sally Floyd; connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman; frame semantics and construction grammar pioneer Charles J. Fillmore and Collin F. Baker, who lead the FrameNet semantic parsing project; and Paul Kay, who published an influential study on the universality of color words. • IEEE Internet Award winner Mark Handley founded the XORP open source router software project while at ICSI. ==References==