Professors Wesel, Dolecek and Daneshrad Receive an NSF Grant

Professors Rick Wesel, Dolecek, and Daneshrad together with Dr. Dariush Divsalar of JPL receive NSF grant entitled "Code Design and Analysis to Approach Capacity with Short Blocklengths Using Feedback."  This collaborative research award provides $880K for UCLA and JPL to design new rate-compatible codes and new algorithms to approach capacity with very short blocklegths using feedback.  See details and abstract of the award:   http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1162501 and http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1161822.