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This special issue for the IEEE 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 IEEE 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 IEEE 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
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 IEEE 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
The registration for the 2022 IEEE European School of Information Theory (ESIT22) is now open. Please register for participation via our website https://www.itsoc.org/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 IEEE 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
The Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University seeks outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, effective as early as September 1, 2019.
Prof. En-hui Yang from the University of Waterloo will be the next Padovani Lecturer. He will deliver his lecture at the 2014 North-American School of Information Theory in Toronto, Canada
Registration for ISIT 2014 is now open at https://www2.securecms.com/ISIT2014/Registration.asp
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.
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 IEEE 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 IEEE 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…
The James. L Massey award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by a Society member under 40 years of age in the Information Theory community. The award is given annually to a single recipient and includes a plaque and $1000…
The Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics are planning a memorial gathering to celebrate Tom Cover's life.
The EECS Department at Northwestern University invites applications for multiple positions to start in fall 2014, including: One faculty position for Assistant Professor in Communications, Networking, Control and Related Emerging Areas;
Multiple…
One Post-doc and two PhD positions are available to investigate the use of nonstochastic and zero-error information theory in filtering, control and causal inference problems with deterministic disturbances or unknown noise distributions. These…
The postdoc is at the IID center at Duke.
Our research team is looking for a talented researcher whose responsibilities would primarily include the research and development of algorithmic solutions to optimal radiation cancer treatment planning and delivery in the next generation rotating-…
Postdoctoral position available to investigate the cyber-security of transmission and distribution networks in smart grids.
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…
Two PhD positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications. Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the…
We are looking for an outstanding candidate for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of green networking and communication for 5G cellular networks.
A post doctoral scholar position is available in The Electrical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus, under the direction of Prof. Aylin Yener.
Post-doctoral position in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, for research at the intersection of information theory and machine learning.
Two Post-Doc positions are offered at the Mathematics Department, at University of Campinas – Unicamp, Brazil, for young researchers in Coding Theory and Discrete Geometries.
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 IEEE 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! IEEE 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 IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) invites nominations for the position of Executive Editor of the IEEE 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 IEEE, the IEEE 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.