ISITA2014 - the International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications - will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 26 to 29 October 2014. The submission deadline is April 6 (firm). For more details: http://www.isita2014.org/

The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It is made up of a series of symposia and workshops. GlobalSIP 2014 will focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes.

The IEEE North American School of Information Theory is accepting applications.

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.

Paper submission is now open for ISITA 2014 in Melbourne, Australia from 26 to 29 October. The submission deadline is April 6. For more details: http://www.isita2014.org/

The deadline for poster submission is extended to March 10, 2014.

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 deadline and no more extension will be given.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2013 Best Paper Award and the 2013 Best Student Paper Award.

The IEEE Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the IEEE IT Paper Award and the IEEE Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.

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 distributions.

The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014. The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers. This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas.

The deadline for poster submission is March 1, 2014.

There is an upcoming IEEE JSAC issue on wireless network coding. The deadline for paper submission is April 1, 2014, with publication planned for February 2015.

The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 24, 2014, at midnight, Eastern Time (New York, USA).

The workshop will feature several student-centered informational, networking, and social events.

Charles T. Retter, a coding theorist and early computer designer, died suddenly on December 30, 2013 at the age of 67 at his home in Exton, PA.

Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society