II - Computer Science (Theory)
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EECS faculty members Dina Katabi and Piotr Indyk with graduate students Eric Price and Haitham Hassanieh will present a new algorithm this week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) that, for a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform -- in some cases yielding a tenfold increase in speed.
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CSAIL Postdoc Chintan Vaishnav has presented a mathematical analysis of the effects of regulation on the telecommunications industry to an audience of regulators and other academics, suggesting that regulators concentrate more on building consensus among disparate economic stakeholders while preventing companies from stifling competition through market dominance.
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EECS Professors Dina Katabi and Muriel Medard have teamed to establish a new field (network coding).

