(Feb. 28) – The International Computer Science Institute, independent centre for advanced computer science research associated with the University of California at Berkeley and focused on international collaboration, has appointed Roberto Pieraccini as its new director. Pieraccini has had an notable career in computer science, with a focus on speech and language technology. Before joining ICSI, Pieraccini, as the Chief Technology Officer, of SpeechCycle, a company focused on advanced speech and multi-modal solutions, was instrumental to the most recent advancements in spoken dialog interaction technology. Prior to that he was a research staff member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research and before that a director of Research & Development for SpeechWorks. He served as the chair of IEEE’s Speech and Language Technical Committee and has worked for AT&T Laboratories and Bell Labs. He started his career as a researcher at CSELT, the research labs for the Italian telephone company in the 1980s. “Roberto – says Professor Nelson Morgan, Deputy Director of the ICSI – brings broad scientific and technological interests, a vision for industrial and international collaboration and a deep understanding of ICSI’s mission. We welcome him as our new director and look forward to a bright future ahead”. Pieraccini is also the author of the upcoming book “The Voice in the Machine”, which will be released the next April. (Peg)
ICSI, SCIENCE RESEARCH THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Inaugurated in 1998, the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is a leading centre for research in computer science and one of the few independent, non-profit research institutes in the United States. With its unique focus on international collaboration and its affiliation with the University of California at Berkeley, ICSI brings together the most influential US scientists and experts from around the world in areas such as computer networking and security, speech and language processing, algorithms, bioinformatics, computer architecture, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
