The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

, USA

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

, where several of its members hold faculty appointments. ICSI's research activities include Internet architecture, network security

Network security

In the field of networking, the area of network security consists of the provisions and policies adopted by the network administrator to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of the computer network and network-accessible resources...

, network routing, speech and speaker recognition, spoken and text-based natural language processing

Natural language processing

Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....

, computer vision, computer architecture, and biological system modeling.

The Institute is led by Professor Nelson Morgan, head of the Speech group. SIGCOMM Award

SIGCOMM Award

The SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks.The award is presented in the annual SIGCOMM Technical Conference.The awardees are:* 2011 Vern Paxson* 2010 Radia Perlman* 2009 Jon Crowcroft* 2008 Don Towsley...

 winner Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is also the head of the Networking Group and the Vice President of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from...

, one of the most-cited authors in computer science, heads the Networking Research Group, Turing award

Turing Award

The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...

 winner Richard Karp

Richard Karp

Richard Manning Karp is a computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, notable for research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004, and the Kyoto...

 heads the Algorithms group, and Professor Srini Narayanan heads the Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 group. Trevor Darrell heads the Computer Vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

 group, and Krste Asanovic heads the Computer Architecture

Computer architecture

In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems....

 group. Other notable ICSI scientists include Vern Paxson

Vern Paxson

Vern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms...

, who previously chaired the Internet Research Task Force

Internet Research Task Force

The Internet Research Task Force focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force , focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making...

, IEEE Internet Award

IEEE Internet Award

IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June 1999. The award is sponsored by Nokia Corporation. It may currently be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the...

 winner Sally Floyd

Sally Floyd (computer scientist)

Sally Floyd was a computer scientist at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. She retired in 2009. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control...

, connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman, construction grammar

Construction grammar

The term construction grammar covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language is made up...

 pioneer Charles J. Fillmore

Charles J. Fillmore

Charles J. Fillmore is an American linguist, and an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Professor Fillmore spent ten years at The Ohio State University before joining Berkeley's...

 and Collin F. Baker who are leading the FrameNet

FrameNet

FrameNet is a project housed at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California which produces an electronic resource based on...

 semantic parsing project, Paul Kay

Paul Kay

Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science...

, who published an influential study on the universality of color words

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berlin and Kay's work proposed that the kinds of basic color terms a culture has, such as black, brown or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has.Berlin and Kay posit seven levels...

, and Dilek Hakkani-Tür, working on spoken language processing.

Mark Handley

Mark Handley (computer scientist)

Mark Handley is Professor of Networked Systems in the Department of Computer Science of University College London since 2003, where he leads the Networks Research Group...

 founded the XORP

XORP

XORP is an open source Internet Protocol routing software suite originally designed at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California...

open source router software project while at ICSI.

The Institute offers a comprehensive exchange program with several international partners, including the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Computer Society (GI e.V.).