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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 IEEE 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 IEEE 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 IEEE Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an IEEE 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 IEEE 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.
Conferences
Job list
Jobs Board
Postdoc Position in Coding for Physical Layer Security
ETIS lab, France (CY Université / ENSEA / CNRS)
A 15 months postdoc position in finite block-length coding for physical layer security is available…
Mar 13, 2024
Post-doc position
University of Maryland College Park
Post-doc in use of LLMs in communications and networking.
Mar 10, 2024
Postdoctoral researcher on semantics of information and goal-oriented communications
Linköping University, Sweden
Postdoctoral researcher on semantics of information and goal-oriented communications, focusing on…
Feb 28, 2024
News
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the Society Newsletter by March 25, 2024.
Mar 3, 2024
Reminder of upcoming deadlines for paper/poster submissions to workshops@ISIT’24
The 03 March deadline for paper submissions to (most) workshops@ISIT is quickly approaching!
Feb 29, 2024
Lloyd Welch passed away at the age of 96
Lloyd Welch, an esteemed mathematician and electrical engineer, whose research career has had a…
Jan 23, 2024
Alexander Barg Awarded 2024 IEEE Hamming Medal
IEEE Information Theory Society congratulates member Alexander Barg for receiving the 2024 IEEE…
Jan 21, 2024
News
2010 IEEE Fellows
Jun 15, 2010
2010 ISIT Student Paper Award Nominees
List of finalist papers that will be considered for the award. The award winners will be announced after the conference on the ITsoc Web.
Jun 9, 2010
WITMSE 2010, The 3rd Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering, Tampere, Finland, 16-18 August 2010
The third Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE) will be held 16-18 August 2010 at the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. Deadline for submission of papers: May 15, 2010. http://sp.cs.tut.fi/WITMSE10/
Apr 21, 2010
WITHITS webpage
WITHITS webpage new address
Mar 9, 2010
IT Society BoG Member Nominations
Call for nominations to the IT Society Board of Governors
Feb 11, 2010
Sequences and their applications (SETA 2010)
Sixth conference on sequences and their applications, to be held in Paris, September 12-17, 2010.
http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/en/research/electronics/SETA2010/sequences-applications.htm
Feb 10, 2010
Thomas Kailath receives the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation has awarded the 2009 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies to Professor Thomas Kailath for creating knowledge with transformative impact on the information and communication technologies that permeate everyday life. These pioneering developments laid the mathematical foundations enabling solutions to some of the challenging problems in this area and have also served to break through the barrier of chip miniaturization.
Jan 27, 2010
IPSN 2010 Call for Posters and Demos
The IEEE/ACM Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks invites your submission of poster and demonstration abstracts, for the 2010 conference in Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-16.
Jan 13, 2010
ITW 2010, Dublin
Jan 5, 2010
Paper Submissions Moving to ScholarOne Manuscripts
In early 2010 the Society will move its paper submission and reviewing activities to ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Jan 4, 2010
Call for Nominations - 2010 IEEE ITSOC Awards
Call for Nominations for different IEEE ITSOC Awards
Dec 29, 2009
2010 IEEE Medal Recipients
The winners of the 2010 IEEE Medals
Dec 18, 2009
Call for Nomination - IEEE Fellow Program
Nov 26, 2009
ITinCVPR official presentation
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!
Oct 25, 2009
Past meeting
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 IEEE 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
Videos on Information Theory
Find tutorials, lectures, keynotes and technical presentations on information theory
