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.

Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society

Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society

Registration is now open for the 2014 European School of Information Theory, which will be held from April 14th to April 18th in Tallinn, Estonia.

ISIT 2014 is now accepting paper submissions. The submission deadline is January 19. Please see: http://www.isit2014.org/paper-submission.php

In recognition of Jim’s great service to and love for Notre Dame, the Notre Dame College of Engineering is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jim’s name.

Four members of the information theory community have been awarded IEEE medals.

The EECS Department at Northwestern University invites applications for multiple positions to start in fall 2014, including: One faculty position for Assistant Professor in Communications, Networking, Control and Related Emerging Areas; Multiple faculty positions in Theoretical Computer Science; One faculty position for Assistant/Associate Professor In Computer Engineering; One faculty Position for Assistant Professor in Database Systems. To apply, visit http://eecs.northwestern.edu/academic-openings.html.

Congratulations to all IT community members who will be elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014.

Postdoctoral position available to investigate the cyber-security of transmission and distribution networks in smart grids.

Proposals for tutorials from members and affiliates of IT society at large are welcome.

Nominations for IEEE Technical Field Awards are now being accepted

Nominations for the Fellow Class of 2015 are now being accepted.

The University of Brescia, Italy, is offering PhD scholarships in Information Engineering.

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Ariel University (Israel) invites applications for a tenure-track Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) post to begin in 2014

Six ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2014 to Dec. 31 2016).

Dr. James Emery Mazo Jr., a world-renowned information theorist, passed away on Sept. 27, 2013, at the age of 76, following a brief illness, at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J.

The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. This is the tenth year that the Prize has been awarded.

Ballots are open until October 1st.

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation.