{"51712":{"#nid":"51712","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two New Faculty Win Prestigious Thesis Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(August 8, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Assistant Professors Yael Kalai and Nick Feamster are winners of this year\u0027s George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral theses in computer science. After reading a collection of excellent theses nominated by their supervisors, a distinguished committee at MIT decided to award two of the five Sprowls to College of Computing faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYael\u00a0Kalai wrote\u00a0\u003Cem\u003EAttacks on the Fiat-Shamir Paradigm and Program Obfuscation \u003C\/em\u003Ewhich was then nominated for consideration by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) national contest. An honorable mention was awarded to Nick Feamster for \u003Cem\u003EProactive Techniques for Correct and Provable Internet Routing. \u003C\/em\u003EAll five Spowls theses are remarkable, and the College of Computing authors are congratulated on their achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo read Yael Kalai\u2019s thesis, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/dnj\/tmp\/theses\/kalai\/kalai-sum.txt\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETo read Nick Feamster\u2019s thesis, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/dnj\/tmp\/theses\/feamster\/feamster-sum.txt\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/dnj\/tmp\/theses\/feamster\/feamster-sum.txt\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Assistant Professors Yael Kalai and Nick Feamster are winners of this year\u0027s George M. Sprowls Award for best doctoral theses in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:12","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}