Information Theory Society
The 麻豆传媒AV Information Theory Society is the premier professional society dedicated to the advancement of聽the mathematical underpinnings of information technology for the benefit of humanity.聽Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process.
Aspects of Our Society
Outreach
A gathering of videos, books and more that show how information theory impacts our lives.Meet IT Society Students
The Student and Outreach Subcommittee plans student and outreach activities at symposia and workshops.Read Our Newsletter
The 麻豆传媒AV Information Theory Society Newsletter聽connects our members and is聽published four times a year. 聽Beginning with the March 2022 issue, the Newsletter is online only.Upcoming Events
Deadline Extension: 麻豆传媒AV-ITW'24
2024 麻豆传媒AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
麻豆传媒AV International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025
News
Call for Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
The 麻豆传媒AV Information Theory Society solicits nominations for the 2025 Padovani Lecturer, the 2025鈥
Call for Nominations: Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The Society solicits nominations for the inaugural 麻豆传媒AV Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award. Deadline:鈥
Dr. Mario Diaz Torres: Obituary and Request for Help
We regret to share that the IT Society lost a rising information theorist and statistician Dr.鈥
Urbashi Mitra is the winner of the 2024 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Urbashi Mitra was announced at ISIT2024 as the winner of the 2024 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished鈥
Conferences
FOCS 2024
麻豆传媒AV 65th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) will be held in Chicago, IL,鈥
WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) - October 21-24, 2024, South Korea
We are pleased to invite original papers to the Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic鈥
2024 The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2024)
The 2024 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA) will be held鈥
Jobs Board
Research Staff Member - CCR Princeton
The Center for Communications Research, Princeton (CCR Princeton) is seeking new permanent research鈥
Polytechnique Montr茅al - Professor of Electrical Engineering - Information, coding, machine learning or signal processing theory
The Department of Electrical Engineering of Polytechnique Montr茅al is seeking applications for the鈥
Research Fellow (Postdoc) in Quantum Information Theory
You will conduct research in Quantum Information Theory, focusing on fundamental limitations in鈥
Call to Action
Recent Journal Issues
JSAIT is a multi-disciplinary journal of special issues.
罢丑别听麻豆传媒AV Transactions on Information Theory聽publishes papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.
Research In Information Theory
Shannon, Euler, and Mazes
One of Claude Shannon鈥檚 best remembered 鈥渢oys鈥 was his maze-solving machine, created by partitions on a rectangular grid. A mechanical mouse was started at one point in the maze with the task of finding cheese at another point. Relays under the board guided successive moves, each of which were taken in the first open counterclockwise direction from the previous move. In belated honor of Shannon鈥檚 centenary and of amnesia in the mouse at age 70, we compare this deterministic search strategy with ...
6G: The Personal Tactile Internet鈥擜nd Open Questions for Information Theory
The initial vision of cellular communications was to deliver ubiquitous voice communications to anyone anywhere. In a simplified view, 1G delivered voice services for business customers, and only 2G for consumers. Next, this also initiated the appetite for cellular data, for which 3G was designed. However, Blackberry delivered business smartphones, and 4G made smartphones a consumer device. The promise of 5G is to start the Tactile Internet, to control real and virtual objects in real-time via c...
Function Load Balancing Over Networks
Using networks as a means of computing can reduce the communication flow over networks. We propose to distribute the computation load in stationary networks and formulate a flow-based delay minimization problem that jointly captures the costs of communications and computation. We exploit the distributed compression scheme of Slepian-Wolf that is applicable under any protocol information. We introduce the notion of entropic surjectivity as a measure of function鈥檚 sparsity and to understand the li...
Reed鈥揗uller Codes: Theory and Algorithms
Reed-Muller (RM) codes are among the oldest, simplest and perhaps most ubiquitous family of codes. They are used in many areas of coding theory in both electrical engineering and computer science. Yet, many of their important properties are still under investigation. This paper covers some of the recent developments regarding the weight enumerator and the capacity-achieving properties of RM codes, as well as some of the algorithmic developments. In particular, the paper discusses the recent conn...
Deep Neural Network Approximation Theory
This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount of training data. Concretely, we consider Kolmogorov-optimal approximation through deep neural networks with the guiding theme being a relation between the complexity of the function (class) to be approximated and the complexity of the approximating network in terms of connectivity and memory requirements for storing t...