The 2022 IEEE East Asian School of Information Theory (EASIT) took place as a hybrid event from August 2 to 5, 2022 at Shenzhen Institute for Talents Development,

The 2nd Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G, was held on Dec. 4 in conjunction with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2022, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting
Location: Aalto University, Finland
Dates: March 4-5, 2022

It is a great honor and privilege to serve as the 2022 Information Theory Society President, surrounded by an outstanding set of BoG and leadership members. During the last two decades in ITSoc, I had the opportunity to meet and interact with so many creative and intellectually brilliant members of our Society, learned so much from our publications and conferences, and have seen the field evolve, expand and grow in so many ways. I am looking forward to learning even more, witnessing even more… Read More

I hope you have been enjoying the summer in particular with our flagship conference, ISIT, as well as with some of the IT Schools (ESIT and Indian School). This is the June issue of our society newsletter.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area International Workshop on coding and data storage took place on Jun. 18-19, 2022 at the University Town International Hotel in Guangzhou. This workshop was jointly organized by Guangdong University of Technology and the IEEE Information Theory Society Guangzhou Chapter.

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 IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award.

Pravin P. Varaiya died on June 10th at his home in Berkeley, CA at the age of 81.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the online IT society newsletter! While this online format is similar to the traditional printed version, it has distinctions in structure as well as in part of the contents. The structure is based on our society’s website, thus it serves as a microsite. As usual, the contents include announcements, news, reports, surveys, and events. But some research articles like tutorials on trending fields will appear instead in our society’s new IEEE BITS the Information… Read More

Congratulations to the members of our community that have recently received prestigious awards and honors, and to those that have been recently elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow!

Robert Wendell Lucky (Bob Lucky) passed away on March 10, 2022, at the age of 86. He was a research engineer and a manager at multiple levels at Bell Labs and Bellcore. Bob was a pioneer and a leader in our research fields and technical societies.

IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting
Location: Remote Meeting
Dates: March 4-5, 2022