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Information Theorist Robert Ash passed away on April 15, 2015, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in Urbana, IL.
We are making a proposal to the United States Postal Service for the production of a stamp honoring Claude Elwood Shannon on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
New contributed announcements over the weekend may not be reflected in the new site.
The submission deadline for the 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, which will be held August 18 - 22 in Bremen, Germany, has been extended to April 6.
A tenure-track position with closing date 1 May is available.
NYU faculty positions in circuits, devices, computing systems, and machine learning.
The call for participation for ESIT 2016 is now available for download.
Please distribute it to potentially interested Ph.D./post-doctoral students in your department.
Tutorial lectures in the 2017 European School of Information Theory, Madrid, Spain.
The submission deadline is (extended to) November 15, 2020.
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Newcastle, Australia is offering a full PhD scholarship in information theory and security to both domestic and international applicants.
Katalin Marton was a giant of our field. She also made remarkable contributions to measure concentration with applications to probability theory and ergodic theory. She received the Shannon Award and was the only woman to do so.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a Tenured Position (Associate or Full Professor). Areas include, but are not limited to, theoretical foundations and…
You have two opportunities to watch the Shannon movie The Bit Player this weekend: through Zoom on Friday, June 26, at 11:10 am Pacific Time and on Vimeo June 26–28.
The registration for the 2022 Â鶹´«Ã½AV European School of Information Theory (ESIT22) is now open. Please register for participation via our website /conferences/schools/ESIT2022
The Princeton Garden Theatre in Princeton, NJ will be hosting a screening of The Bit Player on Thursday, April 7th, 2022.
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society (ITSoc) is also pleased to announce that Prof. Pulkit Grover, Prof. Hamed Hassani, Prof. Parastoo Sadeghi, and Prof. Michèle Wigger, have been named ITSoc Distinguished Lecturers for 2022–2023.
The IT Society is pleased to announce that Alon Orlitsky of the University of California, San Diego is the recipient of the 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
ISIT 2022: Call for Recent Results poster session, the deadline is 15 April. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results pertaining to information theory and related areas.
This special issue for the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory focuses on cutting-edge research in modern compression.
The IT Society is pleased to announce that Mary Wootters has been named the recipient of the 2022 James L. Massey Award
Qian Yu's thesis "Coded Computing: A Transformative Framework for Resilient, Secure, Private, and Communication Efficient Large Scale Distributed Computing" has been awarded the 2022 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.
2022 ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award Recipients Named
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Rüdiger Urbanke is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by Aug. 31, 2022.
The deadline for JSAIT Special Issue on Causality is extended to January 10, 2023.
The deadline for JSAIT Special Issue on Dimensions of Channel Coding is extended to January 29, 2023.
The submission deadline for the Â鶹´«Ã½AV BITS special issue on 6G has been extended.
The poster submission deadline for the 2nd 6G Wireless Foundations Forum has been extended to May 1, 2023
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Andrew Barron is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at ISIT…
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory, dedicated to the memory of Toby Berger. Submission deadline November 15, 2023.
The deadline has been extended to October 29 for the JSAIT issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning.
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Meir Feder of Tel Aviv University has been named the 2024 Padovani Lecturer.
All are invited to submit work to the 2024 Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory, to be held in Athens, Greece, July 7-12, 2024. Andrew Barron is the 2024 Shannon Lecturer.
Nominations are called for the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars, closing date March 15.
ISITA2024 will be held on November 10–13, 2024 , at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, TAIWAN. We are happy to announce that the submission page of ISITA2024 is now open!
JSAIT call for papers. This special issue is dedicated to Electromagnetic Information Theory (EIT) . Submission deadline is August 15, 2024.
The JSAIT Steering Committee requests nominations for the next EiC with deadline June 15, 2024.
2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers announced
ISIT2021 Recent Results Poster Session is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 3 May 2021.
ITSoc will be providing scholarships for undergraduate students from groups that are currently underrepresented in ITSoc to attend ISIT2021 and ITSoc schools. Â鶹´«Ã½AV membership and registration are covered. Applications are due by Monday, June 7.
Registration for posters and attendance of the 2021 North American School of Information Theory has opened.
Call for papers - Entropy: Special Issue "Information Theory and Machine Learning". The goal of the special issue is to collect new results in using information theoretic thinking to solve machine learning problems.
ISIT 2021 begins on July 12, and there is still time to register. A welcome message video is now available, with an overview of the program and session format. https://2021.ieee-isit.org/#footer
As part of efforts to improve inclusivity in the information theory community, if you have participated in the information theory community in any way, please fill out this demographics and inclusion survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ITSoc
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2022 class of Lecturers. Nomination deadline is November 1, 2021.
The Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage track at ICC2022 seeks original contributions in coding and information theory for data storage, and related topical areas.
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by October 31st.
The 2021 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory was held in August 2021 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Videos and lecture material are now available at
http://cscit.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/CSCIT2021/program.html
David Tse writes about not only Claude Shannon's impact on communications, but also on how his work illustrates the importance of top-rate science. Read David's article in Quanta Magazine.
A postdoc position in error control coding for future cellular networks
We are looking for candidate with good knowledge in information theory and causal inference, who would be willing to apply the concepts in quantum information theory.
1 Postdoc and 1 PhD student position are open at Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, where information-theoric methods will be used to advance fiber-optic communications
The winner of the 2020 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award is Charles H. Bennett.
2019 XVI International Symposium "Problems of Redundancy in Information and
Control Systems" (REDUNDANCY) DEADLINE EXTENDED
Check out our new video on recommender systems.
The video describes key insights behind content and collaborative filtering (matrix factorization) and how Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and others predict what you will like.
Tribute to Piet Schalkwijk, who passed away on January 30, 2020. Han Vinck writes about Pieter's scientific career and his contributions to coding and information theory.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) are funding the joint project „Post Shannon Communication“. In this joint project, transmission systems that go beyond Shannon's communication approach are to be developed in order to…
The 2020 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Riva del Garda from 11–15, April 2021. Plenary speakers include Andrea Montanari, Andreas Krause, Emina Soljanin, Gabor Lugosi, Giuseppe Caire and Nina Balcan. Paper submission is…
JSAIT's third issue will focus on statistical estimation and inference. Papers are due May 1, 2020 and expected publication is November/December 2020.
Jorma J. Rissanen passed away on May 9, 2020. Dr. Rissanen was a renowned information theorist with seminal contributions in source coding and was the 2009 Shannon Award winner of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society.
The deadline for paper submissions to JSAIT's special issue on Privacy and Security of Information Systems has been extended to August 15. This is a hard deadline.
IT Society Life Fellow Meir Feder is a co-recipient of the Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on wireless video transmission.
Post-doctoral vacancies at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is proud to introduce the first SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS 2020), which will take place on May 5–7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
We have open vacancies for PhD students and Postdocs in communication theory and the application of machine learning in reliable communications at the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL, Prof. Laurent Schmalen) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…
The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's fifth issue (on Sequential, Active, and Reinforcement Learning) has been extended to Oct 15, 2020.
Jørn Justesen, a well-known expert in coding theory, communications, and data compression, passed away on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 75. His notable results include the construction of low-complexity, asymptotically good…
Attention Students! Â鶹´«Ã½AV now offers a discounted dues option for all student and graduate student members. Simply enter promotion code FUTURE50 when you join or renew to receive 50% off your student membership!
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) will be recruiting a Bridge to the Faculty (B2F) Scholar with start date on August 16, 2021.
The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories, including devices, error coding, architectures, systems, and applications. Submissions to the…
Joy Thomas, co-author of the seminal textbook "Elements of Information Theory" passed away on September 28, 2020 at the age of 57. Joy's career has included stints at IBM T J Watson Research Center and Google, and co-founding of two…
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society (ITSoc) invites nominations for the position of Executive Editor of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory for an 18-month term, starting on January 1, 2020. It is expected that the Executive Editor (EE) will…
Jacob Ziv has received the most prestigious award of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV, the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Medal of Honor.
A variety of PhD student, Postdoc Fellow and 5-year Researcher Positions are available at the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, France.
We are happy to announce the birth of a new conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC). The first ITC conference will take place in Boston on June 17-19, 2020.
2009 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Awards and Medals, presented at ISIT 2009, Seoul, Korea, June 30, 2009
List of finalist papers that will be considered for the award. The award winners will be announced after the conference on the ITsoc Web.
Several members of the Information Theory community have been awarded Â鶹´«Ã½AV Medals and promoted to Â鶹´«Ã½AV Fellows.
The video of the 2012 Shannon Lecture video by Prof. Abbas El Gamal is now available online.