The IEEE Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the Information Theory 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 two calendar years. The purpose of this Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society. The Award consists of a certificate and an honorarium of US$1,000 for a paper with a single author, or US$2,000 equally split among multiple authors. The award will be given for a paper published in the two preceding years.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE : By March 1, 2010 , please email the name of the paper you wish to nominate, along with a supporting statement explaining its contributions, to the Awards Committee chair Giuseppe Caire <[email protected]>, not to the IT Transactions EiC as has been done in the past.