Michael Luby

Information theorist and cryptographer

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2016 Awarded the ACM Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for work on parallel algorithms for maximal independent sets.
2015 Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
2015 Won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for groundbreaking contributions to erasure correcting codes essential for improving video transmission quality over various networks.
2014 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to coding theory, including the inception of rateless codes.
2012 Awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal together with Amin Shokrollahi for the conception, development, and analysis of practical rateless codes.

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