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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Events
Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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International Symposium on Topics in Coding 2025
The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding* will be held from Monday August 18th to Friday August 22, 2025, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, USA.
International Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning within ACM ASIA CCS
Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning will be held in parallel with 20th ACM AsiaCCS on August 26, 2025 in Vietnam. Accepted full length papers will appear in ACM digital library. Submission Deadline: 25 April 2025
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Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
CSCIT 2025 will bring together PhD students and post-doctoral scholars from across Asia to learn and discuss cutting-edge research with world-renowned professors in information theory and computer science.
Date: 3 August - 8 August 2025
Location: C. W. Chu College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Conferences
14-16 May, 2025
University of Cambridge
London Symposium on Information Theory 2025
The Eighth London Symposium on Information Theory 2025 will be held at St. John’s College in the…
May 19, 2025
London, UK
8th Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 8th Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop, which will be…
16-19 Jun, 2025
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
Summer School in the Mathematical Foundations of AI
A 4-day school at the Uni of Bristol, 16-19 June on the Foundations of AI. Courses by Peter Kairouz…
Job list
Jobs Board
PhD Position in Information Theory/Machine Learning
Simula UiB
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the intersection of machine learning and information theory…
Apr 25, 2025
Postdoctoral Research Position at King's College London in Quantum Privacy
King's College London
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position to work on quantum privacy for…
Apr 12, 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions at Bilkent University
Bilkent University
Postdoctoral researcher positions in coding and information theory are available at Bilkent…
Apr 9, 2025
News
Help Shape a Queer Affinity Group within the Information Theory Society
We are exploring the formation of a queer affinity group within the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society…
Apr 28, 2025
NASIT 2025: Registration is now open!
The registration for NASIT 2025 is now open! The registration deadlines are May 10th, 2025 (regular…
Apr 17, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline Extended – Â鶹´«Ã½AV ITW 2025
The paper submission deadline for Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2025 has been extended to…
Apr 13, 2025
New page limits for the IT Transactions
From May 1, 2025 onwards, papers will be restricted to 50 pages (single column format, submitted…
Mar 21, 2025
News
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internet of Things Security, Communications, Inference and Learning; Lehigh and Princeton Universities
Postdoc at Lehigh/Princeton desired to make strong theoretical contributions to bounds and achievable approaches for security, communications, inference, or learning for Internet of Things systems using information theoretic, statistical, or mathematical tools.
Jun 16, 2018
PhD position in error correction coding and shaping for optical communication
The Coding group at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark has an open PhD position within the topic of information theory and error correction coding and shaping for optical communication. This project is part of collaboration between DTU Fotonik and the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) within the EuroTech Alliance.
May 30, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 23, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 18, 2018
Open Position for PhD Student in Coding at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for an open position to pursue a PhD in the area of polar coding.
May 16, 2018
Open Positions in Coding and DSP at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for permanent junior and senior research positions in the area of channel coding and modulation as well as digital signal processing for fibre-optical communications.
May 16, 2018
Information theory workshop at CNS*2018 -- call for contributed talks
Announcement of, and call for contributions to, the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience at CNS*2018, Seattle, USA, July 17-18, 2018.
May 16, 2018
Alexandros Dimakis wins the James L. Massey Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and a revered teacher and mentor to an entire generation of communications engineers. He was one of the outstanding researchers and leaders of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society over a period of 50 years.
May 15, 2018
Jingbo Liu wins Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society including, but not limited to, Shannon theory, source and channel coding theory, data compression, learning theory, quantum information theory and computing, complexity theory, and applications of information theory in probability and statistics.
May 15, 2018
Videos from the celebration of George Boole
A joint project between University College Cork (UCC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was about understanding the impact of George Boole's ideas and Shannon's remarkable work on modeling switching using Boolean algebra.
May 15, 2018
ITW 2018 Guangzhou: Deadline Extension
Extended paper submission deadline for the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou, China: June 1, 23:59 (Hawaii Time)
http://www.itw2018.org/
May 15, 2018
Open Positions at EURECOM in Communications, covering Caching, Distributed computing and Machine Learning
A variety of PhD-student, Postdoc and 5-year Researcher Positions available.
May 3, 2018
May 18 Submission Deadline for Information Theory Workshop 2018
The deadline for submissions for the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou is rapidly approaching.
May 3, 2018
May 18 Submission Deadline for Information Theory Workshop 2018
The deadline for submissions for the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou is rapidly approaching.
Apr 30, 2018
6 PhD positions at Chalmers in mathematics for deep learning
PhD vacancies at Chalmers in mathematics for deep learning
Apr 23, 2018
Submission site open for ITW 2018
The submission deadline is May 18, 2018.
Apr 14, 2018
Summer School on Security Applications of Number Theory and Coding Theory
There will be a Summer School in 2018 on "Number theory and coding theory - contemporary applications in security." at Ã…bo Akademi, Turku.
Apr 14, 2018
ISITA2018 Singapore: Deadline extension
The extended paper submission deadline is April 13. ISITA2018 will be held in Singapore for October 28–31. For more details http://www.isita2018.org/
Apr 4, 2018
Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
ITSOC Member Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh has won the prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Apr 2, 2018
Deadline Extension for BalkanCom
The deadline has been extended to April 11, 2018.
Mar 30, 2018
Past meeting
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2025, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting -Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Classical coding theory contains several techniques to obtain new codes from other codes, including puncturing and shortening. Both of these techniques have been generalized to quantum codes. Restricting to stabilizer codes, this paper introduces more freedom in the choice of the encoded states after puncturing. Furthermore, we also give an explicit description of the stabilizers for the punctured code.
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Subject to the laws of classical physics -the science that governs the design of todays wireless communication systems -there is no need to match the radiation impedance of a receiver antenna to the impedance of the front-end electronics in order to effect communications. If we dispense with a transmission line and, instead, make the front-end electronics colocated with the antenna, then a high input-impedance preamplifier can measure the open-circuit voltage directly on the antenna port while drawing negligible power.