Faculty Associate Receives 2012 Goedel Prize

^{July 12, 2012}
ICSI Faculty Associate Christos Papadimitriou and his collaborator are one of three teams sharing the 2012 Gödel Prize. The prize is awarded for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science by ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Papadimitriou and Elias Koutsoupias are recognized for their paper "Worst-Case Equilibria," which examines the effect of selfish networking behavior. The award was presented on Thursday, July 12 at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. Papadimitriou is the C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.