Princeton Electrical And Computer Engineering Professor Wins Most Influential Paper Award

Study in US: Sharad Malik and his lab group members won the Design Automation Conference (DAC)’s Most Influential Paper Award. Their publication was selected as the most influential paper of the decade.

Sharad Malik, the George van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering at the Princeton Electrical And Computer Engineering and members of his 2001 lab group developed software and an algorithm to solve a class of equations which are foundational to many applications in artificial intelligence, software, hardware, cryptography, verification and network security.

The award is called the “test of time award” and it is given to the publication on being selected as the most influential paper of the decade between 2000 to 2010.

The algorithm and software tool introduced by the group is capable of solving complex logic puzzles known as Boolean Satisfiability problems which impact a wide range of fields and enable more efficient computer chip design.

"An example of one of these problems, referred to as SATs, is the conundrum of seating 10 people at a dinner party where guest A wants to sit with guest B or C, but B is friends with D, who does not like guest C… When the number of guests increases, the problem becomes exponentially more difficult to solve. Problems in many fields and businesses can be represented as these kinds of puzzles. One of the most prominent influences of Malik’s program is in the chip industry, where SAT problems are used to determine whether or not the computer chip will work correctly in billions of situations before the chip is built," reads the official statement of Princeton Electrical And Computer Engineering.

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