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Our Impact
Achieving Impacts
ICSI insights and innovations change the world. We work across sectors and disciplines to tackle hard problems, unlock new capabilities, and create game-changing solutions. Whether addressing critical gaps, informing policy, or launching a start-up, ICSI’s work is all about impact.
“These are projects that would only happen at ICSI. At ICSI, we were able to go after what just made sense. At a company, you’re often on this product side or that product side, not both. And even if you’re faculty at a university, you’re often a machine learning person or a privacy person, but not both. Being able to investigate all sides of this allowed us to get a view that nobody else has. And we were way ahead of the curve.”
Gerald Friedland
Former ICSI Researcher
“My research focus was always at the boundary of academic research and getting stuff out there and deployed. We were writing a lot of papers, but we also had the opportunity to actually see things through, so that at the end somebody was actually using what we were doing.”
Robin Sommer
Former IFI-DAAD Fellow, co-founder of Corelight
“A big output of these research projects is the people. […] The papers and the specific technologies have an impact, but it’s really about the people and the impact they have, continuing on through the next generation, advising people, starting industries, and the broad infrastructure impact their work has had on everybody.”
Krste Asanovic
Former ICSI researcher, professor at UC Berkeley
Achieving Impacts
Impact Stories
Bridging the Privacy Gap in Mobile Health Apps
ICSI researchers uncover how mobile health apps often fail to meet users’ privacy expectations
Impact Stories
Crying Foul on Cryptocurrency
Nicholas Weaver exposes the risks and realities of crypto, helping the public and policymakers cut through the hype
Impact Stories
ICSI in the Driver’s Seat
How a transatlantic collaboration at ICSI helped pioneer the in-car voice interfaces now used in Audi and Mercedes vehicles
Impact Stories
Celebrating Recent Milestones from ICSI’s Deep Learning Group
How ICSI’s Deep Learning Group is shaping the future of machine learning through groundbreaking research and global collaboration
Impact Stories
Celebrating Recent Milestones from ICSI’s Usable Privacy and Security Group
Celebrating major research, policy, and advocacy milestones from ICSI’s Usable Privacy and Security Group
Impact Stories
Five ways ICSI researchers have changed the world
Five landmark research efforts that highlight how ICSI scientists have transformed computing, security, AI, and everyday technology
Impact Stories
Finding Fake Twitter Accounts
How ICSI researchers exposed vast networks of fraudulent Twitter accounts, leading to millions of takedowns
Impact Stories
Pioneering Hardware for Neural Networks
Decades before AI hit the mainstream, ICSI researchers built custom chips to accelerate machine learning
Impact Stories
Spurring Action to Stop Spam
How ICSI’s creative research helped expose the business model behind global spam operations
Impact Stories
Adding Value for Additive Manufacturing
How ICSI researchers developed scalable design tools to help engineers harness next-gen manufacturing technologies
Impact Stories
Eliminating Errors in Speech Recognition
How a simple filter created by ICSI researchers helped cut speech recognition error rates from 60% to 3%, paving the way for modern voice tech
Impact Stories
The Dawn of Distributed Hash Tables
How ICSI researchers helped invent DHTs, paving the way for today’s scalable, decentralized data storage systems
Impact Stories
Promise and Peril in Public Video and Photo Collections
How ICSI researchers uncovered value and vulnerabilities in public collections and shaped the future of online privacy awareness
Impact Stories
Shining a Light on the Internet’s Gatekeepers
How ICSI’s Netalyzr exposed hidden ISP behavior, empowering users and reshaping debates on net neutrality
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