The 2021 North American School of Information Theory will take place next week, featuring six tutorials.

The Guangzhou Section Chapter named 2021 Chapter of the Year.

The ISIT2021 technical program is now available at https://2021.ieee-isit.org/TechnicalProgram.asp . The virtual ISIT2021 begins on Monday, July 12 at 7 am (Australian Eastern Standard Time). It may still be Sunday for many people.

Call for papers — this JSAIT special issue will focus on exploring how new advances in information theory can impact future communication systems. Submission deadline is September 1, 2021.

Registration for posters and attendance of the 2021 North American School of Information Theory has opened.

The Student and Outreach Subcommittee of the Information Theory Society is proud to present the ”Four Minutes, Two Techniques Contest”, an event opened to students registered to ISIT 2021.

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.

The deadline for submissions to the ISIT2021 Recent Results Session has been extended until 7 May 2021 (23:55 Hawaii time)

The deadline for the next JSAIT special issue on Coding for Data Management and Delivery in Networks has been extended to May 15. This is a hard deadline.

The book was prepared for publication (translated to English and edited) by the Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich, and will be published May, 3, 2021 by TUM.University Press.

ISIT2021 Recent Results Poster Session is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 3 May 2021.

The IEEE Information Theory Society invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, starting July 1, 2021.

Please submit contributions for the upcoming newsletter by April 30.

Yuejie Chi announced as the 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer

Muriel Médard announced as the 2021 Padovani Lecturer

2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers announced

This special issue is dedicated to communication theory, coding theory, information theory, signal processing, and networking aspects of privacy in information retrieval, privacy in coded computing over distributed servers, and privacy in distributed learning.

There is still time for all members to submit nominations for the following Information Theory Society awards.

Registrations for ITW 2020 are now open. Workshop dates: April 11-15, 2021. Detailed information at http://itw2020.it