October 13, 2010
Jinwoo Shin, a postdoctoral researcher in the Algorithms & Randomness Center & ThinkTank (ARC), has been awarded the George M. Sprowls Award by MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Each year, the Sprowls Award is given by the MIT department for the best doctoral thesis in computer science. Shin’s thesis, "Efficient Distributed Medium Access Algorithm," describes using medium access control (MAC) algorithms in designing a high-performance communication network architecture.