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International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS): Call for papers for special issue on Cognitive Wireless Networks. Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2009.
A call for proposals for the XV International Symposium "Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems"
The following statement reaffirms the Society's commitment to the IEEE Code of Conduct, IEEE Code of Ethics, and IEEE Nondiscrimination Policy.
A conference celebrating Imre Csiszár's 80th birthday will be held this summer in Budapest.
Dan Costello will receive the 2013 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award at ISIT 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.
The deadline for Workshop on Physical-layer methods for wireless security has been extended to June 7. For details, please see http://users.wpi.edu/~llai/CNS-workshop/
Due to server stability issues in the last few days, nominations for the Shannon and Wyner awards through the website may have been disrupted.
Slides from some of the talks given through the ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) are available.
Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300) invites submissions to the special issue "Entropy and Information Inequalities". The deadline for submission is June 29, 2018.
Early registration deadline has been extended. Registration for the 2017 European School of Information Theory at an advanced rate can be done before April 7, 2017.
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Mathematics and Engineering at Queen's University, Canada
Pioneering Contributions to Multiple-Access Communications Networks Have Powered the Wireless Revolution
Coding theory, cryptogrology, information theory.
The IEEE Information Theory Society has been awarded the 2014 IEEE Educational Activities Board Society/Council Professional Development Award.
From producer and host Irena Fischer-Hwang comes a new podcast, The Informaticists, addressing the fundamental question "What is information?"
ITE is a recently released free and open source, multi-platform, Matlab/Octave toolbox that is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities, and kernels on…
Emeritus Professor Irving S. Reed of USC passed away on September 11th, 2012 at the age of 88.
The registration for ISIT 2012 is now open. Deadline for early registration is May 25
Pictures and slides of Plenaries from ISIT 2013 are available
The paper submission deadline for the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory has been postponed to January 23.
The ISITA2016 paper submission deadline is April 7, 2016. ISITA2016 will be held Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2016 in Monterey, California, USA at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel. http://www.isita2016.org/
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/
ArXiv is a public preprint server (partly funded by the NSF) which in the past decade has become the dominant method for distributing new papers in the physics community, and more recently in substantial parts of math and CS. It has been called the…
The IT Society will present these awards at the annual Awards Banquet at ISIT in Aachen on Wednesday, 28 June, 2017.
The paper submission deadline is 4 May 2014. See http://itw2014.jaist.ac.jp for details.
James Lee Massey died on June 16, 2013 at his home in Copenhagen, Denmark.
There will be a memorial at ISIT 2013 on July 8th at 6:30pm to honor James Massey.
Joachim Hagenauer has been named the first recipient of the Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG)
The IEEE 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…
2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers announced
ISIT2021 Recent Results Poster Session is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 3 May 2021.
ITSoc will be providing scholarships for undergraduate students from groups that are currently underrepresented in ITSoc to attend ISIT2021 and ITSoc schools. IEEE membership and registration are covered. Applications are due by Monday, June 7.
Registration for posters and attendance of the 2021 North American School of Information Theory has opened.
The IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Andrew Barron is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at ISIT…
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory, dedicated to the memory of Toby Berger. Submission deadline November 15, 2023.
The deadline has been extended to October 29 for the JSAIT issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning.
The IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Meir Feder of Tel Aviv University has been named the 2024 Padovani Lecturer.
All are invited to submit work to the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, to be held in Athens, Greece, July 7-12, 2024. Andrew Barron is the 2024 Shannon Lecturer.
Nominations are called for the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars, closing date March 15.
ISITA2024 will be held on November 10–13, 2024 , at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, TAIWAN. We are happy to announce that the submission page of ISITA2024 is now open!
ISIT 2022: Call for Recent Results poster session, the deadline is 15 April. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results pertaining to information theory and related areas.
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