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Registration for the 2015 European School of Information Theory (ESIT 2015) has opened.
The 2016 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars is awarded to Professor Andrea Montanari of Stanford University. The 2016 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded to Kartik Venkat of Stanford University. The 2016…
Kartik Venkat, Stanford University, PhD. is announced as the recipient of the Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for 2016, from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for his dissertation obtained under the direction of Professor Tsachy Weissman in…
The Australian National University is pleased to host the 2017 IEEE Australian Information Theory School, January 16-17, 2017, Canberra, Australia.
The workshop consists of invited talks in the area of optical communications and a poster session and will be held from April 8-10, 2018.
3 Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions in Telecommunications at the University of Sydney, Australia
The IEEE Information Theory is sad to report the passing of Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Moore Shannon.
BITS 2018 was held during January 11-14, 2018 in Mumbai.
The following ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2013 to Dec. 31 2015).
The Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2013 Best Paper Award and the 2013 Best Student Paper Award.
Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society
Nominations for IEEE Technical Field Awards are now being accepted
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation.
The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015.
The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015.
The 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia in the scenic Okanagan Valley from Wednesday May 18 to Friday May 20, 2011.
We invite original contributions for the IEEE JSAC special issue on Recent Advances In Capacity Approaching Codes
Submissions solicited for a special issue of Int. J. of Information and Coding Theory on "Information and Coding Theory for Data Storage". Important dates: Submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2016
Notification of decision: June 1, 2016…
Each year, the Allerton Conference draws some of the brightest minds from industry, academia and government to discuss innovation in the fields of communication, control and computing. Papers are due July 9, 2018
The IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing will publish an Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing. Manuscripts are due December 1, 2017.
Daniel J. Costello, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.
The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. This is the tenth year that the Prize has been awarded.
Professor David MacKay passed away on April 14, 2016 at age 48.
The deadline for paper submission to the
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'09), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, has been extended to *April 5, 2009, 23:00 CET (17:00 EDT)*.
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…
The IEEE TAB has established a new Committee on Diversity and Inclusion based on the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Women and Under-represented Groups.
Five new lecturers have been named by the Society as Distinguished Lecturers.
Faculty position in Mathematics and Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Queen's University, Canada
Faculty position in Mathematics and Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Queen's University, Canada
in a broad range of areas in electrical and computer engineering including devices, communications, networking, signal processing, big data analysis, and energy systems; and the areas of computer architecture/embedded systems, data science, and…
The finalists for the 2013 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award have been selected.
The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It is made up of a series of symposia and workshops. GlobalSIP 2014 will focus broadly on…
I have two openings for PhD students in my group in the Electrical Engineering Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). One opening is in the fields of Network Information Theory, Network Coding, Index Coding and a second in…
The IT Society congratulates 19 Society Members, including 3 members of the Board of Governors, who were elected to the rank of IEEE Fellow for 2009.
IEEE Fellows Nominations and supporting materials are due March 1, 2015.
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society and appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years.
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is given 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…
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, formerly known as IT Society Distinguished Service Award, honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory…
The Claude E. Shannon Award honors consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon
All IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCIDs enable accurate attribution and improved discoverability of an author’s published work. The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a…
Two page extended abstracts are solicited for the first round of reviews of the Special Issue on the Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2015
Recently, a number of advances in the theory of computation have been made by using information-theoretic arguments (e.g., in communication complexity, streaming, and data structures lower bounds). Conversely, some of the most exciting ongoing work…
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.
Paper submission is now open for SCC 2015 in Hamburg, Germany (February 2-5, 2015). The submission deadline is August 1, 2014.
Videos of the ISIT 2015 Shannon Lecture by Robert Calderbank and plenary talks by Bin Yu, Madhu Sudan, Terrence Sejnowski, and Ruediger Urbanke are available for streaming on the ITSOC Vimeo page.
A collection of updates from the Online Committee: thanks to survey respondents, ISIT 2014 plenaries now on Vimeo, and the new @ieee_itsoc Twitter account.
The ITSOC Online Committee has posted videos from some past Schools of Information Theory for streaming
Would you be interested in becoming a mentor or mentee in the IT
society's mentoring network?
ITinCVPR (Information theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Springer has been officially presented. This is the first text connecting both fields of IT and CVPR!
The paper submission deadline is 4 May 2014. See http://itw2014.jaist.ac.jp for details.
The deadline of papers submission of ITW204 5 is now October 31, 2013(23:59:59pm PDT).
The 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop will take place in Jeju Island, Korea, from October 11 to October 15, 2015. Jeju Island is the largest island in Korea and is located in the Pacific Ocean just off the south-western tip of the Korean…
The IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Information Theory (JSTIT) is a new journal in the process of being launched by the IEEE Information Theory Society in early 2020. It will publish high quality technical papers on all aspects of information…
The IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing will publish an Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing. Manuscripts are now due December 8, 2017.
The June 2017 issue of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter is available online.
The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the intersection of Digital Communications and Signal Processing, including Information Theory.
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 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal was established in 1976 by the IEEE Board of Directors, in commemoration of the centennial of the telephone's invention, to provide recognition for outstanding contributions to telecommunications.
The…
New blog and book announcemnet on IT in computer vision and pattern recognition
The Newsletter and Online teams are working together to combine submission processes where appropriate. New instructions and guidelines for submissions have been posted on the website.
Call for nominations for the Shannon award , Wyner award, Paper award and joint IT/ComSoc paper award
The College of Engineering at Notre Dame is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jim Massey’s name
There are multiple positions available for
A RESEARCH FELLOW POSITION in coding is now open at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The Optical Algorithm Design team of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, located in the Paris area, is seeking strong candidates for two permanent research positions in optical fiber communications. The…
Ph. D. openings at Iowa State in Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy's group
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…
A PhD scholarship is now available in the field of information theory at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. This position is aimed to providing a unified framework for the study of finite-length information theory.