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David Tse writes about not only Claude Shannon's impact on communications, but also on how his work illustrates the importance of top-rate science. Read David's article in Quanta Magazine.
A postdoc position in error control coding for future cellular networks
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.
1 Postdoc and 1 PhD student position are open at Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, where information-theoric methods will be used to advance fiber-optic communications
The winner of the 2020 IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award is Charles H. Bennett.
2019 XVI International Symposium "Problems of Redundancy in Information and
Control Systems" (REDUNDANCY) DEADLINE EXTENDED
Check out our new video on recommender systems.
The video describes key insights behind content and collaborative filtering (matrix factorization) and how Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and others predict what you will like.
Tribute to Piet Schalkwijk, who passed away on January 30, 2020. Han Vinck writes about Pieter's scientific career and his contributions to coding and information theory.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) are funding the joint project „Post Shannon Communication“. In this joint project, transmission systems that go beyond Shannon's communication approach are to be developed in order to…
The 2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Riva del Garda from 11–15, April 2021. Plenary speakers include Andrea Montanari, Andreas Krause, Emina Soljanin, Gabor Lugosi, Giuseppe Caire and Nina Balcan. Paper submission is…
JSAIT's third issue will focus on statistical estimation and inference. Papers are due May 1, 2020 and expected publication is November/December 2020.
Jorma J. Rissanen passed away on May 9, 2020. Dr. Rissanen was a renowned information theorist with seminal contributions in source coding and was the 2009 Shannon Award winner of the IEEE Information Theory Society.
The deadline for paper submissions to JSAIT's special issue on Privacy and Security of Information Systems has been extended to August 15. This is a hard deadline.
IT Society Life Fellow Meir Feder is a co-recipient of the Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on wireless video transmission.
Post-doctoral vacancies at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is proud to introduce the first SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS 2020), which will take place on May 5–7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
We have open vacancies for PhD students and Postdocs in communication theory and the application of machine learning in reliable communications at the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL, Prof. Laurent Schmalen) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…
The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's fifth issue (on Sequential, Active, and Reinforcement Learning) has been extended to Oct 15, 2020.
Jørn Justesen, a well-known expert in coding theory, communications, and data compression, passed away on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 75. His notable results include the construction of low-complexity, asymptotically good…
Attention Students! IEEE now offers a discounted dues option for all student and graduate student members. Simply enter promotion code FUTURE50 when you join or renew to receive 50% off your student membership!
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) will be recruiting a Bridge to the Faculty (B2F) Scholar with start date on August 16, 2021.
The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories, including devices, error coding, architectures, systems, and applications. Submissions to the…
Joy Thomas, co-author of the seminal textbook "Elements of Information Theory" passed away on September 28, 2020 at the age of 57. Joy's career has included stints at IBM T J Watson Research Center and Google, and co-founding of two…
The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) invites nominations for the position of Executive Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for an 18-month term, starting on January 1, 2020. It is expected that the Executive Editor (EE) will…
Jacob Ziv has received the most prestigious award of the IEEE, the IEEE Medal of Honor.
A variety of PhD student, Postdoc Fellow and 5-year Researcher Positions are available at the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, France.
We are happy to announce the birth of a new conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC). The first ITC conference will take place in Boston on June 17-19, 2020.
2009 IEEE Awards and Medals, presented at ISIT 2009, Seoul, Korea, June 30, 2009
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers announced
The symposium continues the tradition of the historical first four editions of LSIT, which were held in London in 1950, 1952, 1955, and 1960 and were attended by the likes of Claude Shannon and Alan Turing. The latest LSIT was held in 2019, and the…
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
ISIT2021 Recent Results Poster Session is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 3 May 2021.
The Center for Science of Information (CSoI) seeks a postdoctoral researcher to work on broad intersections of information theory, machine learning, combinatorics, quantum information and design and analysis of algorithms.
ITSoc will be providing scholarships for undergraduate students from groups that are currently underrepresented in ITSoc to attend ISIT2021 and ITSoc schools. IEEE membership and registration are covered. Applications are due by Monday, June 7.
Save the date for the 2021 van der Meulen Seminar in honor of Prof. Frans Willems, Friday, November 5, 2021 at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Registration for posters and attendance of the 2021 North American School of Information Theory has opened.
Permanent faculty position open at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level, in the general area of the Theory of Quantum Information and Computation. Deadline for applications: August…