ICSI Hosted an Open House in Conjunction with BEARS

^{February 23, 2006}
On February 23rd, ICSI hosted an open house in conjunction with BEARS 2006, UC Berkeley's annual EECS research symposium. In addition to posters outlining various research activities at ICSI, there was a demonstration of a speech recognition application that provides market information to Tamil-speaking Indian crop growers, and two featured talks. The first talk, given by graduate student Joseph Makin, outlined a new hybrid-system model for human blood clotting, which he developed by with AI Group Leader Srini Narayanan. The second talk was given by invited speaker Allan Leinwand, chairman and founder of ICSI sponsor Vyatta Inc. (see next brief). The event was enthusiastically received by BEARS 2006 participants, invited guests of ICSI and Vyatta Inc, and ICSI staff.