Michael Sears has written fictionalized accounts of his own real journey on foot through Eastern Europe and Turkey. (Photo by Dan Addison)

L-R: Annie Galvin and Natasha L. Mikles (Photos by Dan Addison)

Malathi Veeraraghavan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, is creating applications and protocols to ensure that communication to and from these state-of-the-art networks is as efficient as possible.