The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, 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 including, but not limited to, Shannon theory, source and channel coding theory, data compression, learning theory, quantum information theory and computing, complexity theory, and applications of information theory in probability and statistics.

We are looking for candidate with good knowledge in information theory and causal inference, who would be willing to apply the concepts in quantum information theory.

The paper submission deadline for JSAIT's third special issue on estimation and inference has been extended to May 15.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society (DSTC) invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2018-2019 DSTC Best Paper Award and the 2018-2019 DSTC Best Student Paper Award. ​The nomination deadline is July 31, 2020.

We are seeking nominations for the first Editor in Chief (EiC) of IEEE 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 members are D. Costello, E. Erkip, C. Fragouli, U. Mitra and W. Spankowski. Nomination deadline: April 20, 2020. Self-nominations are encouraged.

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 accepted papers whose travel is restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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.

Society President Aylin Yener describes updates to the Members of the IEEE Information Theory Society regarding the impact of COVID-19. ISIT2020 will be run as a virtual online conference and three award nomination deadlines have been extended.

Tribute to Vera Pless, who passed away on March 2, 2020. Prof. W. Cary Huffman writes about Vera's life, scientific career and her significant, original, and lasting contributions to the study of error correcting codes and information theory.

Society President Aylin Yener describes important changes and updates to the 2020 activities of the IEEE Information Theory Society due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Vera Stepen Pless has passed away on Monday March 2, 2020, just before her 89th birthday.

The deadline to propose tutorials at ISIT 2020 is fast approaching! Please consider and encourage contributing a proposal: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Tutorials.asp

Call for nominations for the first Editor-in-Chief of IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine.

Entropy invites submissions to the special issue “The Interplay Between Storage, Computing, and Communications from An Information-Theoretic Perspective”. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 October 2020.