Emeritus Professor Irving S. Reed of USC passed away on September 11th, 2012 at the age of 88.

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Voting is open for the BoG Election.

The submission date for the white paper for IEEE SPM special issue on cyber-security and privacy has been extended to Tuesday September 4, 2012

Annual IT awards announced. Summary of 2011 Shannon Lecture. President's Column. BOG meeting minutes. Historian and Puzzle Columns.

Annual IT Awards Announced. Summary of 2011 Shannon Lecture. President's Column. IT BOG Minutes.

The Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics are planning a memorial gathering to celebrate Tom Cover's life.

Special Issue on on Signal Processing for Cyber‐security and Privacy

The Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society passed a resolution regarding reviewing duties for the Transactions at its July 1, 2012, meeting.

The creation of the Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award was announced during the awards luncheon at ISIT.

Several members of the Information Theory community have been awarded IEEE Medals and promoted to IEEE Fellows.

Ezio Biglieri has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.

Katalin Marton has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon award.

Three papers received the Student Paper Award at ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA

A memorial session will be organized at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kresge Auditorium on Monday, July 2, 2012 from 8pm to 9:30pm .

The 2012 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award has been awarded.

Would you be interested in becoming a mentor or mentee in the IT society's mentoring network?

The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the intersection of Digital Communications and Signal Processing, including Information Theory.