Alumni Receive IEEE Hamming Medal

^{June 30, 2012}
Michael Luby, a long-time collaborator and the former leader of ICSI's Algorithms Group, has received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. Luby shares the award with ICSI alum Amin Shokrollahi. They are recognized for developing efficient and flexible data coding methods that have enabled the success of information distribution applications such as video streaming and delivery of data to mobile devices. Luby is the vice president of technology at QUALCOMM's new office in Berkeley, and Shokrollahi is a professor of math and computer science at EPFL and the former chief scientist of Digital Fountain in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also currently the CEO of Kandou Bus, a company he co-founded in 2011. Luby and Shokrollahi will be presented with the award at the IEEE Awards Ceremony on June 30.