Two positions are open in the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH).

Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results in information theory to the ISIT 2016 Recent Results Session.

Joint postdoc position at MIT and Northeastern University, in the area of multi-layered interdependent networks, sponsored by Prof. Eytan Modiano and Prof. Edmund Yeh.

Shannon Award winner and long-time ITSOC member Solomon W. Golomb passed away on May 1, 2016.

Professor David MacKay passed away on April 14, 2016 at age 48.

Postdoc positions at UCLA (data science, algorithms, coding, computing)

There is a postdoctoral position at the intersection of "information theory" and "distributed computing" available at Prof. Avestimehr's group at USC.

Helmut Bölcskei has been selected as the 2016 Padovani Lecturer

A call for proposals for the XV International Symposium "Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems"

Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results in information theory to the ISIT 2016 Recent Results Session.

Tom Richardson from Qualcomm will be giving the next biannual Jack Wolf Lecture on April 14 at 11 am at NYU. Please see http://catt.poly.edu/events/Jack-K-Wolf-Lecture-Series for details.

The ISITA2016 paper submission deadline is April 7, 2016. ISITA2016 will be held Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2016 in Monterey, California, USA at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel. http://www.isita2016.org/

Slides and videos are now posted from a December 2015 DIMACS workshop on network coding.

This is a group created to enable discussions amongst women working in the areas of information, communication, data and signal processing sciences. The goal is to exchange ideas and opinions as well as identify and address challenges that women face in STEM research areas.

On May 23rd and 24th, the Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich, hosts a workshop on causal inference and information theory.