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Method and Apparatus for Encoding and Decoding Dirty-Paper-Coded Nested-Lattice Codes

This invention is a practical way of encoding more than two messages simultaneously on a multiple antenna downlink of a wireless channel. This system operates at capacity of the multiple antenna downlink, meaning that there is no loss in performance when using this encoding scheme. (Read more...)

UT researcher makes skin cancer detection breakthrough

Dr. James Tunnell, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UT, and a group of graduate students have been working on it for three years. BusinessWeek magazine is calling it one of the top inventions of the decade. This "optical" biopsy was developed to detect or rule out skin cancer while you wait in your doctor's office. (Read the complete story...)

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