Receiving the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in New York this past weekend was one of the great honors of my career.
Standing among the researchers, innovators, and practitioners recognized at the ceremony was humbling in the truest sense of the word. The work being celebrated across every category reflects decades of curiosity, persistence, and collaboration. It reminds me how much of what we accomplish in this field rests on the shoulders of those around us and those who came before.
I'm deeply grateful to the @IEEEorg@IEEEAwards, to my collaborators across @MIT and beyond, to my students past and present, and to my family for their unwavering support. This recognition belongs to all of you as much as it does to me.
Network coding has been the throughline of my research life, and seeing it continue to find new applications, from wireless systems to distributed storage, to the blockchain infrastructure we're building at @get_optimum, is its own quiet reward. The best part of any honor like this is the reminder that the work isn't finished.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
A new look for the new era of data movement
Over the past 12+ months we've been focused on building out mump2p, our Ethereum data propagation product, onboarding top validators to test it with, and educating our peers on the merits of decentralized coding.
Now with the launch of mump2p on Ethereum mainnet firmly in our sights, it feels like the right time to give Optimum's visual identity a refresh-- something to match the sleek, powerful data acceleration network we're deploying.
The advent of RLNC powered data movement frees blockchains from the networking bottleneck, so they can perform at the pace demanded by our ever-expanding digital economy. The new era begins soon with data propagation on Ethereum, more chains and use cases to follow.
Time to raise the ceiling for blockchains, and do it in style.
You know the tech is good when your CEO is an internationally recognized engineering leader
Congratulations @MurielMedard our industry is lucky to have you working on the toughest challenges in blockchain scaling👏