The 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory seeks half-day tutorial proposals, which should provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of the conference.

IEEE TV has posted interviews with prominent members of our Society. Available so far: a profile of David Forney and an interview with Shlomo Shamai.

Post-Doc Position at King's College London

Cambridge University, Univeristy Lecturer position in the "Statistics and Mathematics of Information". Complete announcement: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11847/

Past newsletters can also be found on the ITSOC website.

Workshop report: 5th International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications (5ICMCTA), August 28-31, 2017, Vihula, Estonia

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore is offering positions for postdoctoral fellows who will work in information theory, machine learning and their intersection.

The Workshop on Polar Coding will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 15-18 April 2018.

Sep. 2017 issue of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter

A joint postdoc position at Arizona State University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the US Army Research Laboratory in the area of secure and authentic communications, is available immediately. The successful candidate will be working with the research groups of Prof. Oliver Kosut and Prof. Joerg Kliewer in collaboration with the US Army Research Laboratory.

One Post-doc and two PhD positions are available to investigate the use of nonstochastic and zero-error information theory in filtering, control and causal inference problems with deterministic disturbances or unknown noise distributions. These positions are based in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.

This workshop brings together experts from industry and academia to discuss the challenges and solutions for the problem of multiple-access in wireless communication and Internet-of-Things.

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman have written a book about Claude Shannon titled A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. The book made its debut this week and is available everywhere books are sold. Kindle and audiobook versions are available as well.

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.

Gottfried Ungerboeck will receive the 2018 Claude E. Shannon Award and deliver the 2018 Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2018. The award was announced at the ISIT 2017 Banquet in Aachen.

Three papers were selected to be awarded the 2017 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award.

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, formerly known as IT Society Distinguished Service Award, honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. The award was announced at the ISIT Awards Session in Aachen, Germany.