BEARS Open House

^{February 15, 2007}
Feature Presentation by Nick Weaver of ICSI's Networking Group: Haptic Keys: A Novel Approach to User Authentication

Please join us for our annual BEARS open house on Thursday, February 15 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. ICSI scientists will be on hand throughout to discuss and demonstrate their latest research in networking, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, speech and natural language processing.

In our feature presentation at 3:00 pm, Nick Weaver will provide a novel take on user authentication, the notoriously difficult problem of proving electronically that "you are who you say you are". Grounded in the familiar, real-world concepts of physical locks and keys, his approach, is at once thought provoking, powerful--and eminently pragmatic.

ICSI is located at 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, Berkeley, CA, two blocks from the UC Berkeley campus and Downtown Berkeley BART station. A map and detailed directions are at:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/about/location.html. A shuttle will be available to transport people from campus to ICSI and back.

Technology Demos

• Early Childhood Attachment Behavior: A Computational Model (Alberto Amengual, visiting researcher from Spain)
• SmartWeb: Information Access Using Natural Spoken Language (Luke Gottlieb, Speech Group)
• Automatic Diarization of News Broadcasts (Gerald Friedland, visiting researcher from Germany)
• Meeting Browser: A Practical Application for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) (Adam Janin, Speech Group)
• FrameNet: Online Lexical Resource Based on Frame Semantics (FrameNet Staff)

For more information on ICSI, see ICSI's Home Page.