International Computer Science Institute
| International Computer Science Institute | |
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 ICSI logo |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | US government agencies, BMFT / DAAD , etc. a. |
| Legal form of the carrier: | US non-profit organization |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Engineering , computer science , computational linguistics |
| Areas of expertise: | Artificial intelligence , information and cooperation systems, |
| Management: | Maria Eugenia Quintana (director); Scott Shenker (Scientific Director) |
| Employee: | approx. 30 (scientific staff) |
| Homepage: | www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi |
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is one of the leading research centers in computer science, which has existed as an independent and not-for-profit international institution at the University of California (UCB) in Berkeley , California , USA since 1988 .
history
The foundation and development is thanks to Norbert Szyperski , who in the 1970s, under the impression of the backlog of German computer and software technology and its lack of networking with the international development of information technology, looked for remedies. A connection to the leading research and development situation in computer science in the USA in the 1980s therefore seemed desirable and the more fruitful, the better it was possible to stabilize existing contacts between individual research groups and university institutes and to broaden them by institutionalizing their cooperation and mutual exchange and could be established in the form of an international research center in the USA. As director of the German Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD), Szyperski found a colleague in Ron Kay , the then senior research manager at IBM , who made the realization of this idea his own at the beginning of the 1980s. With the support of the BMFT , the German Research Foundation (DFG), some German industrial companies and Gerhard Goos from the GMD, the basic funding of the planned institute was secured, as was the approval of the University of California to locate the research center in Berkeley with their assistance.
After its founding, it was possible over the years to internationalize the initially purely German financing of the ICSI under the founding director and Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jerome Feldman , and in the meantime to supplement it with the temporary contributions of other European countries (Italy, the Netherlands) such as Germany sent their own guest researchers (researchers, post-doctoral students, professors, etc.) to the ICSI for research stays. Currently, in addition to the national (American) main sponsors (US government, industry, private), only the countries Germany ( BMFT / DAAD ), Italy (Universities of Padua and Genoa with Computer Platform Research Center (CIPI)) are involved in the financing of the ICSI. ), Finland ( Aalto University ) and Singapore ( Nanyang Technological University ).
Research spectrum
With its special focus on close, international cooperation and through its established, international programs of basic research, the ICSI brings together scientists from all over the world and in all phases of their scientific careers with the research staff of the ICSI and with leading American researchers in particular, but not only, of UC Berkeley together. Several ICSI scientists are also employed at UC Berkeley, teaching and training there, which means that some of their students and post-graduate students also work as doctoral candidates at the ICSI.
Current research focuses on artificial intelligence , language and computational linguistic language analysis , computer vision , audio and multimedia analyzes , bioinformatics and brain models as well as computer networks and security . Particular strengths of the ICSI lie in the innovative development of algorithms - with application in genomics, video and language processing , internet routing - and measurement technology as well as machine learning .
The current status of research is documented in the ICSI Technical Reports and the ICSI Gazette .
literature
- Norbert Szyperski in: ICSI Gazette, No. 4, 2014. pp. 1ff
References and comments
- ↑ Maria E. Quintana
- ^ S. Shenker
- ^ ICSI Research Staff
- ^ Tribute to N. Szyperski on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ICSI 2013
- ^ Letter from R. Kays on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ICSI in 2013
- ^ Proposal For an International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
- ↑ (October 2014)
- ↑ ICSI sponsors & research partners
- ↑ ICSI research projects
- ^ The ICSI Gazette website