Rice DSP and ECE alums Marco Duarte, Jason Laska, Mark Davenport, Dharmpal.Takhar, and Ting Sun plus faculty Kevin Kelly and Richard Baraniuk have been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award for the paper "Single-Pixel Imaging via Compressive Sampling: Building Simpler, Smaller, and Less-Expensive Digital Cameras", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2008.