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Awards

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society 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 four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award 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.

Distinguished Lecturers

The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.

Conferences

Jobs Board

Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Information Theory and Coding
Bilkent University

Immediate openings for postdocs on insertion/deletion channels and DNA storage at Bilkent…

Mar 3, 2023
Postdoc Positions in Wireless Communications
University of Hawaii

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hawaii is looking for two…

Feb 22, 2023
Postdoctoral Position in Econometrics and Statistics
University of Vienna-Department of Statistics and Operations Research

The University of Vienna invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the field of…

Feb 10, 2023

News

Robert Calderbank - USC Viterbi Lecture, Thursday March 2, 2023

Robert Calderbank of Duke University will give the 2023 USC Viterbi Lecture on Thursday, March 2,…

Feb 28, 2023
Submission Deadline Approaching: JSAIT Issue on Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures

Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on the Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures in the Transmission…

Feb 17, 2023
IEEE Information Theory Society Call for 2023 Award Nominations

Nominations are now open for paper awards as well as annual awards and recognition from the IEEE…

Jan 9, 2023
Aylin Yener Has Been Elected To Be the Next IEEE Division IX Director

The IT Society congratulates our Past President Aylin Yener for being elected to be the next IEEE…

Dec 22, 2022

News

ISITA 2014 in Melbourne: Deadline April 6, 2014
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/
Mar 29, 2014
GlobalSIP 2014: IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
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.
Mar 25, 2014
IEEE North American School of Information Theory accepting applications
The IEEE North American School of Information Theory is accepting applications.
Mar 12, 2014
International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing: Submission Deadline April 6
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.
Mar 7, 2014
ISITA 2014 in Melbourne: Call for Papers
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/
Mar 7, 2014
2014 IEEE CTW 2014: Call for Posters
The deadline for poster submission is extended to March 10, 2014.
Feb 28, 2014
Additional Deadline Extension JSAC Special Issue
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.
Feb 25, 2014
Call for nominations - IEEE ComSOc Data Storage Technical Committee 2013 Best Paper Award and 2013 Best Student Paper Award
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.
Feb 14, 2014
Call for nominations - 2014 IT and Joint ComSoc/IT awards
The IEEE Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the IEEE IT Paper Award and the IEEE Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.
Feb 14, 2014
Information Theoretical Estimators (ITE) Toolbox
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.
Feb 3, 2014
SPAWC'14 and IT Summer School at Toronto
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.
Jan 24, 2014
Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize
Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas.
Jan 23, 2014
2014 IEEE CTW 2014: Call for Posters
The deadline for poster submission is March 1, 2014.
Jan 23, 2014
An upcoming JSAC issue on wireless network coding - deadline April 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.
Jan 23, 2014
ISIT 2014 submission deadline extended to January 24, 2014
The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 24, 2014, at midnight, Eastern Time (New York, USA).
Jan 19, 2014
Website goes live !
Jan 8, 2014
Website goes live !
Jan 7, 2014
Student Invitation to the 2014 ITA Workshop, February 9-14, San Diego
The workshop will feature several student-centered informational, networking, and social events.
Jan 7, 2014
Charles T. Retter dies suddenly at age 67
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.
Jan 7, 2014
Call for Nominations - IEEE Information Theory Society 2014 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society
Dec 21, 2013

Past meeting

BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2023
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.

Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences

Videos on Information Theory