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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
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.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Conferences
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University of texas
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Nov 30, 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Information Theory and Codings
Bilkent University New
Immediate openings for postdocs on insertion/deletion channels and DNA storage at Bilkent…
Mar 3, 2023
Postdoc Positions in Wireless Communications
University of Hawaii
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hawaii is looking for two…
Feb 22, 2023
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Nov 30, 2023
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Mar 27, 2023
Robert Calderbank - USC Viterbi Lecture, Thursday March 2, 2023
Robert Calderbank of Duke University will give the 2023 USC Viterbi Lecture on Thursday, March 2,…
Feb 28, 2023
Submission Deadline Approaching: JSAIT Issue on Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on the Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures in the Transmission…
Feb 17, 2023
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A postdoctoral fellowship in information theory at Tel Aviv University, Israel
A postdoctoral research position in the field of information theory is now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Starting in October 2017 (or later) for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Mar 8, 2017
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Mar 6, 2017
Registration for the ESIT 2017 is now open
Registration for the 2017 European School of Information Theory is now open. Registration at an advanced rate can be done before March 31, 2017.
Feb 28, 2017
ESIT 2017 registration is now open
Feb 28, 2017
Permanent Research Positions in Optical Fiber Communication
The Optical Algorithm Design team of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, located in the Paris area, is seeking strong candidates for two permanent research positions in optical fiber communications. The research will focus on algorithms and coded modulation schemes to drive innovation in the context of high-speed coherent optical communications. The successful candidates will be involved in the development of competitive solutions for complex fiber optical transmission systems and of future key technology based on the non-linear Fourier transform.
Feb 15, 2017
Joint Postdoc Position at ASU, NJIT, and ARL in Secure and Authentic Communications
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.
Feb 9, 2017
New ITSOC Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018
Five new lecturers have been named by the Society as Distinguished Lecturers.
Feb 9, 2017
Joint Postdoc Position at ASU, NJIT, and ARL in Secure and Authentic Communications
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.
Feb 8, 2017
CWIT Deadline Extension until February 24
Feb 6, 2017
Open PhD and Postdoc positions in area of Wireless Communication Networks at Eurecom
There are multiple positions available for
Feb 2, 2017
WIC Midwintermeeting 2017: Updated program
The program of the WIC Midwintermeeting 2017 on Quantum Computation and Communication has been updated.
Jan 31, 2017
CfP 38th WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
The 2017 Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux will be held in Delft on May 11-12.
Jan 31, 2017
ISIT Deadline Extension until Sunday February 5th, 23:59 EST
The deadline has been extended again due to technical difficulties with the server.
Jan 30, 2017
Website goes live!
Jan 30, 2017
Upcoming Deadlines for Information Theory Society Awards
Many IT Society awards have nomination deadlines in the next few weeks.
Jan 28, 2017
A Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) Position in Wireless Communication Theory
A Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) Position in
Wireless Communication Theory.
The successful PDF will be engaged in a project related to physical layer security either from an information or a communication theoretical point of view.
Jan 27, 2017
WIC Midwintermeeting 2017: Quantum Computation and Communication
The WIC Midwintermeeting 2017 will take place on February 16 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The topic will be Quantum Computation and Communication.
Jan 27, 2017
IEEE Medal of Honor 2017 for Kees Schouhamer Immink
Kees Schouhamer Immink will receive the IEEE Medal of Honor 2017.
Jan 27, 2017
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BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022 - 2023 test
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Shannon Bounds for Quadratic Rate-Distortion Problems
The Shannon lower bound has been the subject of several important contributions by Berger. This paper surveys Shannon bounds on rate-distortion problems under mean-squared error distortion with a particular emphasis on Berger’s techniques. Moreover, as a new result, the Gray-Wyner network is added to the canon of settings for which such bounds are known. In the Shannon bounding technique, elegant lower bounds are expressed in terms of the source entropy power.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Computation of Binary Arithmetic Sum Over an Asymmetric Diamond Network
In this paper, the problem of zero-error network function computation is considered, where in a directed acyclic network, a single sink node is required to compute with zero error a function of the source messages that are separately generated by multiple source nodes. From the information-theoretic point of view, we are interested in the fundamental computing capacity, which is defined as the average number of times that the function can be computed with zero error for one use of the network.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Low-Complexity Coding Techniques for Cloud Radio Access Networks
The problem of coding for the uplink and downlink of cloud radio access networks (C-RAN’s) with K users and L relays is considered. It is shown that low-complexity coding schemes that achieve any point in the rate-fronthaul region of joint coding and compression can be constructed starting from at most 4(K+L)-2 point-to-point codes designed for symmetric channels. This reduces the seemingly hard task of constructing good codes for C-RAN’s to the much better understood task of finding good codes for single-user channels.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Erratum to “LightVeriFL: A Lightweight and Verifiable Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning”
This article addresses errors in [1]. Equation (2) contained an error wherein x was not bold. It is corrected below.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
JPEG Compliant Compression for DNN Vision
Conventional image compression techniques are primarily developed for the human visual system. However, with the extensive use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for computer vision, more and more images will be consumed by DNN-based intelligent machines, which makes it crucial to develop image compression techniques customized for DNN vision while being JPEG compliant. In this paper, we revisit the JPEG rate distortion theory for DNN vision. First, we propose a novel distortion measure, dubbed the sensitivity weighted error (SWE), for DNN vision.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Throughput and Latency Analysis for Line Networks With Outage Links
Wireless communication links suffer from outage events caused by fading and interference. To facilitate a tractable analysis of network communication throughput and latency, we propose an outage link model to represent a communication link in the slow fading phenomenon. For a line-topology network with outage links, we study three types of intermediate network node schemes: random linear network coding, store-and-forward, and hop-by-hop retransmission. We provide the analytical formulas for the maximum throughputs and the end-to-end latency for each scheme.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Addressing GAN Training Instabilities via Tunable Classification Losses
Generative adversarial networks (GANs), modeled as a zero-sum game between a generator (G) and a discriminator (D), allow generating synthetic data with formal guarantees. Noting that D is a classifier, we begin by reformulating the GAN value function using class probability estimation (CPE) losses. We prove a two-way correspondence between CPE loss GANs and f-GANs which minimize f-divergences. We also show that all symmetric f-divergences are equivalent in convergence.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Information Velocity of Cascaded Gaussian Channels With Feedback
We consider a line network of nodes, connected by additive white noise channels, equipped with local feedback. We study the velocity at which information spreads over this network. For transmission of a data packet, we give an explicit positive lower bound on the velocity, for any packet size. Furthermore, we consider streaming, that is, transmission of data packets generated at a given average arrival rate. We show that a positive velocity exists as long as the arrival rate is below the individual Gaussian channel capacity, and provide an explicit lower bound.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Long-Term Fairness in Sequential Multi-Agent Selection with Positive Reinforcement
While much of the rapidly growing literature on fair decision-making focuses on metrics for one-shot decisions, recent work has raised the intriguing possibility of designing sequential decision-making to positively impact long-term social fairness. In selection processes such as college admissions or hiring, biasing slightly towards applicants from under-represented groups is hypothesized to provide positive feedback that increases the pool of under-represented applicants in future selection rounds, thus enhancing fairness in the long term.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Controlled privacy leakage propagation throughout overlapping grouped learning
Federated Learning (FL) is the standard protocol for collaborative learning. In FL, multiple workers jointly train a shared model. They exchange model updates calculated on their data, while keeping the raw data itself local. Since workers naturally form groups based on common interests and privacy policies, we are motivated to extend standard FL to reflect a setting with multiple, potentially overlapping groups.
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