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Dr. Christian Peel (Ph.D., BYU, 2004) and Prof. Lee Swindlehurst have won the 2006 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice prize

Dr. Christian Peel (Ph.D., BYU, 2004) and Prof. Lee Swindlehurst have won the 2006 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory for their two-part paper "A Vector-Perturbation Technique for Near-Capacity Multiantenna Multiuser Communication," co-authored with Dr. Bert Hochwald of Beceem Communications, Inc. The paper appeared in the January and March, 2005, issues of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and presents a new approach for exploiting antenna arrays to communicate with a number of wireless terminals simultaneously. The award carries a $500 stipend for each author, and will be presented at the 2006 IEEE Globecom Conference to be held in San Francisco.