It is already Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot believe how fast this year is going by. This is my second column, which traditionally congratulates on awards and highlights new initiatives.

IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting
Location: Aalto University, Finland
Dates: March 4-5, 2022

It is a great honor and privilege to serve as the 2022 Information Theory Society President, surrounded by an outstanding set of BoG and leadership members. During the last two decades in ITSoc, I had the opportunity to meet and interact with so many creative and intellectually brilliant members of our Society, learned so much from our publications and conferences, and have seen the field evolve, expand and grow in so many ways. I am looking forward to learning even more, witnessing even more… Read More

I hope you have been enjoying the summer in particular with our flagship conference, ISIT, as well as with some of the IT Schools (ESIT and Indian School). This is the June issue of our society newsletter.

Congratulations to the members of our community who have recently received prestigious awards and honors!

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area International Workshop on coding and data storage took place on Jun. 18-19, 2022 at the University Town International Hotel in Guangzhou...

Toby Berger passed away on May 25, 2022 at the age of 81. He was one of the icons of information theory, recognized with numerous awards including the IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award.

The Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (MWCC) is a workshop held at the Technical University of Munich lead by Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh. Each version of the workshop focuses on different emerging aspects of coding theory and cryptography. This fourth edition of the workshop focused on coded computing and coding for DNA storage and was organized by Rawad Bitar, Andreas Lenz, Luis Maßny, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Lorenz Welter and Eitan Yaakobi.

Pravin P. Varaiya died on June 10th at his home in Berkeley, CA at the age of 81.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the online IT society newsletter! While this online format is similar to the traditional printed version, it has distinctions in structure as well as in part of the contents. The structure is based on our society’s website, thus it serves as a microsite. As usual, the contents include announcements, news, reports, surveys, and events. But some research articles like tutorials on trending fields will appear instead in our society’s new IEEE BITS the Information… Read More

Congratulations to the members of our community that have recently received prestigious awards and honors, and to those that have been recently elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow!

Robert Wendell Lucky (Bob Lucky) passed away on March 10, 2022, at the age of 86. He was a research engineer and a manager at multiple levels at Bell Labs and Bellcore. Bob was a pioneer and a leader in our research fields and technical societies.

Alexander Vardy passed away on Friday March 11 2022, at the age of 59.

Congratulations to the new members of the IT Society Board of Governors (a full list of members can be found on the ITSoc website).

The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) is pleased to announce 2022 named lecturers: Padovani Lecturer (Elza Erkip); Goldsmith Lecturer (Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti); and Distinguished Lecturers (Pulkit Grover, Hamed Hassani, Parastoo Sadeghi, and Michèle Wigger).

It is a pleasure to write this first column as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Transactions on Information Theory, a role I took over last July from my predecessor Igal Sason. I would like to extend my thanks to him and to outgoing Executive Editor Erdal Arıkan for all their help and encouragement in my transition. Taking on this role is a great honor and responsibility. The Transactions are a precious element of our Society, a crucial archive of our work.

A survey of the ITSoc community members we conducted from July 5 to August 31 2021.

The Information and Communication Theory Lab (ICT Lab) at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) organized the 9th Van der Meulen Seminar in honor of Prof. Frans Willems on November 5, 2021. The focus of the seminar was the history of Willems' research and its connections to other researchers from the IT Society.

IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting
Location: Remote Meeting
Dates: March 4-5, 2022