Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi Receive IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
July 1, 2007
Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi, both alumni of ICSI, were co-recipients of this year's IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. This award was given "for bridging mathematics, internet design, and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization". Luby founded Digital Fountain, Inc. which utilizes technology he helped develop while at ICSI. Shokrollahi is chief scientist for Digital Fountain and works at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.