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As of March 21, 2009, after only 44 days since launch, the new IT Society website has received 10,028 visits from 118 countries.

The deadline for paper submission to the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW'09), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, has been extended to *April 5, 2009, 23:00 CET (17:00 EDT)*.

Professor Giuseppe Caire will give a talk this Monday on wireless communications.

Professor Giuseppe Caire will give a talk this Monday on wireless communications.

A final reminder that nominations for the Shannon, Wyner, and paper awards are due on March 1, 2009.

The BBVA Foundation has awarded the 2008 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies to Professor Jacob Ziv. Ziv's ground-breaking innovations in data compression have had a deep and lasting impact on both the theory and practice of communications and information technology.

The Women in the Information Theory Society (WITHITS) program has a new website.

The IT Society congratulates 19 Society Members, including 3 members of the Board of Governors, who were elected to the rank of Â鶹´«Ã½AV Fellow for 2009.

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society mourns the loss of Professor Sergio D. Servetto, who passed away on July 24th 2007. He was the sole victim of an accident in a private plane, which he was flying from Michigan to Ithaca, NY.

Five-Page Limit on Correspondences As recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Growth of the Transactions, and unanimously approved by the Board of Governors at ISIT 2006 in Seattle, WA, accepted Correspondence items submitted for review in 2007 and beyond will be limited in length to five printed pages in the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory. The updated Information for Authors now reflects this change.

On an experimental basis, open reviewing of submissions to the Transactions will be allowed to complement the standard procedure.