Prof. Gustavo de Veciana was given the 'best technical talk award' by Cisco and Intel at their two day Video-Aware Wireless Networks (VAWN) Conference in San Jose, CA. The VAWN program was established in 2010 to help Intel and Cisco develop new ways for coping with the rapidly escalating demand for video consumption over wireless networks, and includes academics from USC, UCSD, Cornell, UT Austin, and Moscow State, as well as participation by Intel and Cisco engineers, and Verizon. The UT Austin team is leading an effort to re-engineer wireless networks by optimizing for perceptual quality.