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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.
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.
2009 IEEE 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 IEEE Medals and promoted to IEEE Fellows.
The video of the 2012 Shannon Lecture video by Prof. Abbas El Gamal is now available online.
The winner of the Chapter of the Year Award is the Swedish Joint Vehicular Technology, Communications, and Information Theory Chapter.
The deadline for poster submission is extended to March 10, 2014.
Three members of the IEEE Information Theory Society have received 2014 Technical Field Awards.
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 2015 Munich Workshop on Information Theory of Optical Fiber (MIO 2015) will take place from Dec. 7-8, 2015 in Munich, Germany.
Four members of the IEEE Information Theory Society have been named as winners of the IEEE's most prestigious winners. The awards are IEEE Medal of Honor for G. David Forney, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for Roberto Padovani, the IEEE…
The 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients were announced this week.
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.
Three papers were selected to be awarded the 2017 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award.
CISS 2011 will be held at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 23-25, 2011.
Due to many requests, we have decided to further extend the submission deadline for the JSAC special issue entitled "Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer” to be Apr. 1st, 2014. This is a hard…
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman have written a book about Claude Shannon titled A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. The book made its debut this week and is available everywhere books are sold. Kindle and audiobook versions…
Ad-hoc Meeting on Deep Learning & Coding / TAU, Israel, June 19, 2017
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Ariel University (Israel) invites applications for a tenure-track Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) post to begin in 2014
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.