News

^{January 16, 2004}
ICSI announces several changes to its Board of Trustees. After several years of service on ICSI's Board, Professor Elwyn Berlekamp has retired from his position as Chairman. Clifford Higgerson succeeded Professor Berlekamp as the Chairman of the Board. ICSI is grateful to both of them for their dedication and service to the Institute.

^{January 15, 2004}
The ICSI Meeting Corpus has now been released by the Linguistic Data Consortium. This corpus, which consists of 75 natural meetings recorded at ICSI from 2000 to 2002, was created with the intention of providing spontaneous multi-party speech data for use in development of speech recognition technology. Speech researchers at ICSI and many other sites (including our colleagues at IDIAP who are working on related material) are interested in developing technology capable of accurately transcribing multi-party meetings, and defiving higher-level information such as summaries from the meetings. The release of the Meeting Corpus marks the completion of the first stage of this kind of research.

For more information on the Meeting Corpus you can visit the LDC website.

^{January 9, 2004}
Liz Shriberg, a senior researcher at ICSI, was quoted on January 3, 2004 in a New York Times article about disfluencies in speech. She was subsequently interviewed live on the radio talk show "Adler On Line" with Charles Adler of CJOB 68 Radio in Winnipeg, Canada, on Friday, January 9.

^{January 5, 2004}
Scott Shenker, leader of ICSI's Networking Group, has been selected as an ACM Fellow for his achievements in the field of information technology.