Researchers merge game theory with wireless networks, create 'smarter' garments

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Using economic theory to improve wireless communications networks and designing garments that can sense their own shapes are among the goals of two National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award projects recently funded at Virginia Tech.
Allen MacKenzie and Tom Martin, assistant professors in Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), each have won five-year CAREER awards worth $400,000. These grants are the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for creative junior faculty who are considered likely to become academic leaders of the future.


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