The IEEE Information Theory Society names the Class of 2020-21 Distinguished Lecturers

Ayfer Özgür named the IEEE Information Theory Society 2020 Goldsmith Lecturer

David Tse named the IEEE Information Theory Society 2020 Padovani Lecturer

Post-doctoral vacancies at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The paper submission portal is now open for ISIT 2020: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Papers.asp

Updates on ITSoc's new journal JSAIT

The 8th Van der Meulen Seminar was held on December 13, 2019

Katalin Marton was a giant of our field. She also made remarkable contributions to measure concentration with applications to probability theory and ergodic theory. She received the Shannon Award and was the only woman to do so.

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 (KIT) in Germany.

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 workshops are 2-page extended abstracts. They are due December 11th, 2019.

Lalitha Sankar and Oliver Kosut at Arizona State University are looking for a postdoc to work on privacy and fairness in the context of learning.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate/Full Professor (tenured) position.

We are looking for postdocs at EURECOM who have worked on coded caching and/or distributed computing. Planned research includes coded caching, distributed computing, data shuffling, as well as a variety of other applications in the area of communications and computing. The duration can be 1.5, or up to 3-4 years.

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 error-correcting codes (1972), a discovery of fast decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometric codes, as well as research into construction and properties of convolutional codes.

Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.

Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.

The NVMW Persistent Impact Prize is awarded annually to a paper published at least five years prior that has had exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories, including coding and information theory. The award includes a cash prize.

Join us for the latest screening of the The Bit Player, the first feature film about Claude Shannon. The IEEE Information Theory Society has helped to produce this film, which combines interviews with leading scientists, archival film, inventive animation and compelling commentary from Shannon himself to tell the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity. Mark Levinson, director of the award-winning film Particle Fever, wrote, produced and directed The Bit Player.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a Tenured Position (Associate or Full Professor). Areas include, but are not limited to, theoretical foundations and algorithms dealing with various aspects of big data broadly interpreted to include networked communication systems, distributed computing, high dimensional statistics, signal processing, scaling laws, data mining, and machine learning for high-performance and scalable computing and communication; applications include, but are not limited to, Internet-of-Things, augmented intelligence, social science, smart cities and other domains.

A new video presenting the concepts behind secret sharing and Shamir's seminal paper is now on YouTube. This is the latest video in the Society's Great Papers: Information Theory series.