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Registration for the 2017 North-American School of Information Theory is now open!
The 2020 European School of Information Theory will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 24 to May 29, 2020. Registration is now open and early-bird rates are in place until March 26, 2020.
Prof. Vera Stepen Pless has passed away on Monday March 2, 2020, just before her 89th birthday.
Join us for the latest screening of the The Bit Player, the first feature film about Claude Shannon. The ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society has helped to produce this film, which combines interviews with leading scientists, archival film, inventive…
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Goldsmith Lecturer is Mary Wootters of Stanford University. She will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the Information Theory Schools next year. Congratulations, Mary!
Antonia Wachter-Zeh received the 2023 Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize for her exceptional contributions to cryptography and coding theory.
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by December 15, 2023.
The 03 March deadline for paper submissions to (most) workshops@ISIT is quickly approaching!
ۿ۴ý ITW 2024, to be held in Shenzhen, China, is calling for half-day tutorial proposals that provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of the conference.
Yuejie Chi announced as the 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer
The Student and Outreach Subcommittee of the Information Theory Society is proud to present the ”Four Minutes, Two Techniques Contest”, an event opened to students registered to ISIT 2021.
The 2021 North American School of Information Theory will take place next week, featuring six tutorials.
Gerhard Kramer has been named recipient of the 2021 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.
The Student and Outreach Subcommittee and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the ۿ۴ý IT society are organizing a virtual mentorship event during the ISIT 2021 conference, on topics relevant to the student, postdoc and young faculty community…
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by July 31st.
2021 Information Theory Society Paper Award recipients named
The ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Raymond W. Yeung 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…
JSAIT Call for Papers: This special issue will focus on information theoretic aspects of distributed coding and computing. Deadline for papers is December 15, 2021.
ITW2021 starts on October 17 as a virtual event, and the event platform is now online. There is still time to register for ITW2021 and get access to to papers, videos, presentation files, and of course participation in the live Zoom sessions.…
ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society member Madhu Sudan has been awarded the 2022 ۿ۴ý Hamming Medal
Are you planning an upcoming conference or workshop of interest to the information theory community? IT Society members can announce events by posting on itsoc.org
Owing to extensive requests, we are extending the ISIT deadline once more, until Feb 6, 2022 11:59pm EST.
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), is currently recruiting exemplary candidates in the field of computer science and electrical…
A short article appearing in the February 2022 issue of ۿ۴ý Spectrum argues that Claude Shannon, besides inventing information theory and the logic gate, had a contribution to machine learning.
JSAIT call for papers on deep learning methods for inverse problems. Papers are due May 15, 2022.
The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's special issue on Modern Compression has been extended to April 15, 2022.
This special issue aims to advance cutting-edge research in deep learning methods for inverse problems, with an emphasis on its intersection with information theory.
The 2022 Information Theory Workshop seeks proposals for 2.5 hour tutorials. Paper submission deadline has been extended to 13th of May.
During online sessions, November 1-2, 2022
Welcome Hye Won Chung, Sanghamitra Dutta, Lalitha Vadlamani and Rashmi Vinayak as the new WITHITS co-chairs!
The deadline for JSAIT Special Issue on Deep Learning Methods for Inverse Problems is extended to June 1st.
Toby Berger passed away on May 25, 2022 at the age of 81. He was one of the icons of information theory, recognized with numerous awards including the ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award.
The UK and Ireland Section Chapter has been named the 2022 Chapter of the Year.
Pravin P. Varaiya died on June 10th at his home in Berkeley, CA at the age of 81.
JSAIT call for papers on Dimensions of Channel Coding: Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Alexander Vardy. Paper submission deadline is January 15, 2023.
JSAIT call for papers on Causality: Fundamental Limits and Applications is open. Paper submission deadline is December 20, 2022.
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Modern Applications. The imminent extended submission deadline is October 10, 2022.
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by Nov. 30, 2022.
The ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the ۿ۴ý Transactions on Information Theory, starting July 1, 2023.
Submit your research to the MLSys 2023 Workshop on Resource-Constrained Learning in Wireless Networks. This will be the first wireless networking-related workshop of its kind at a top-tier ML venue. Submission Deadline: March 21, 2023 (extended)
Jacob Ziv, known for his pioneering contributions to communication and information theory that inspired generations of researchers, passed away on March 25, 2023 at the age of 91.
For this year's ۿ۴ý GLOBECOM main symposium on Communication and Information System Security (CISS), we encourage submission of papers that apply information-theoretic security and privacy metrics, analyses, and methods. Deadline April 15, 2023
The 2023 Information Theory Society Paper Award goes to “A unified framework for one-shot achievability via the Poisson matching lemma” by C. T. Li and V. Anantharam.
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by August 31, 2023.
ۿ۴ý Information Theory Workshop 2019
Visby, Gotland, Sweden - August 25-28, 2019 http://itw2019.org Submission deadline: April 10, 2019
A three-year post-doctoral position in the area of privacy and security is available at the Information Theory Section of Simula UiB in Bergen, Norway.
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei Paris Research Center, located in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris area), is looking for PhD candidates to work in the area at the frontier between information theory and statistics, with application…
We are seeking nominations for the first Editor in Chief (EiC) of ۿ۴ý BITS, who will, together with the Steering Committee and the Editorial Board, ensure its smooth operation and success. The Magazine is administered by a Steering Committee, whose…
Robert G. Gallager will be awarded the 2020 Japan Prize for his contributions to information theory, including the development of error-correcting codes that are used in 5G systems.
The deadline for nominations for the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars is fast approaching - March 15.
Authors of accepted papers in the Transactions are requested to make sure that papers which are cited in your accepted paper as preprints on arXiv or as conference papers are replaced by their corresponding publications in the ۿ۴ý Transactions on…
The open-access journal Entropy is arranging a special issue on “Information-Theoretic Aspects of Non-Orthogonal and Massive Access for Future Wireless Networks.” The submission deadline is April 1, 2021. For more information on the scope and…
The ISIT deadline has been extended to 1/15/2020 11:59pm EST
1 PhD and 2 Postdoctoral positions available at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
The deadline for paper submission is Sunday, January 12, 2020, at 11:59 PM, Eastern Time (New York, USA).
The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA) will be held October 24–27, 2020 in Kapolei, Hawai’i, USA. The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 17. Special considerations will be made for authors of…
This special issue aims at collecting recent results in finite-length information theory and its intersection with neighboring fields. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 April 2021.
Registration is now open for the 2014 European School of Information Theory, which will be held from April 14th to April 18th in Tallinn, Estonia.
Submit papers to the conference on Information-Theoretical Cryptography (ITC). Deadline Feb 1, 2021.
Alon Orlitsky wins the Claude E. Shannon award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. He will deliver his Shannon lecture at ISIT 2021.
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
ۿ۴ý Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2020 Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers.
Registrations for ITW 2020 are now open.
Workshop dates: April 11-15, 2021.
Detailed information at http://itw2020.it
Post-doctoral position under Professor Natasha Devroye and Professor Wenjing Rao.
The deadline for paper submissions to the special issue of the ۿ۴ý Transactions on Information Theory dedicated to the memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein has been extended to November 15th, 2019.
A two-day workshop featuring tutorial-style talks on information-theoretic measures for privacy and fairness at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at UC Berkeley
As of March 21, 2009, after only 44 days since launch, the new IT Society website has received 10,028 visits from 118 countries.
The 2017 Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux will be held in Delft on May 11-12.
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research Awarded to Norman C. Beaulieu
University of Alberta Professor and iCORE Chair, Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu awarded 2010 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Silver Medal "for outstanding contributions in wireless communication theory" by ۿ۴ý Canada.
The 2012 ۿ۴ý Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award has been awarded.
Three papers received the Student Paper Award at ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
The recipients of the 2013 ۿ۴ý Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award have been announced at ISIT 2013, Istanbul Turkey
The deadline for the 2013 North American School of Information Theory has been extended to May 15
Imre Csiszár has been named the recipient of the 2015 ۿ۴ý Richard W. Hamming Medal. Richard Baraniuk has been named the recipient of the 2015 ۿ۴ý James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
The paper "List Decoding of Polar Codes" ۿ۴ý Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp 2213 – 2226, May 2015 by Ido Tal and Alexander Vardy has been awarded the 2017 ۿ۴ý Communications Society and Information Theory Society…
Workshop report: 5th International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications (5ICMCTA), August 28-31, 2017, Vihula, Estonia
This is the sixth in a series of conferences that aims to bring together the leading researchers in the areas of information theory, quantum information theory, and cryptography. ICITS covers all aspects of information-theoretic security, from…