Agenda, Meeting of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society, Allerton Confernce, Sept. 27, 2006.

Logistics * Sept 27, 2006 * Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois (site of the Allerton Conference) * 7:30 PM Agenda 1 Approval of Agenda 2 Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting ["PDF,slightly revised":BoGminutes2006-07-2.pdf] 3 Presidents Report and Announcements (Neuhoff) ["PDF":Pres-report-BoG-9-06.pdf] 4 Treasurer's Report (Medard) ["PDF, Revised":ITtreasurerreportOctober2006-revised.pdf] 5 Editor-in-Chief's Report (Poor) ["PDF":EICReport-092706] 6 Symposia and Workshops (Grant) * ISIT 2009 Seoul (written report only) ["PDF":isit09-allertonupdate.pdf] * ITW 2008 Portugal (Barros) ["PDF":ITW-2008-BoG-260906.pdf] * ISIT 2008 Toronto (Kschischang, no report) * ITW 2007 Lake Tahoe (Ryan, by phone) ["PDF":ITW-2007.pdf] * ITW 2007 Norway (written report only) ["PDF":Report-ITW2007-at-Allerton06.pdf] * ISIT 2007 France (Fossorier, Goldsmith) ["PDF":propl-best-student-paper-at-isit2007-2.pdf] * ITW 2006 China (Costello) ["PDF":ITW06China-ProgressReporta.pdf] ["PDF":ITW06China-ProgressReportb.pdf] * ISIT 2006 Seattle (written report only) ["PDF":ISIT2006-Update-Sep2706.pdf] * ITW 2006 Uruguay (no report) * ISIT 2005 Australia (Grant) ["PDF":ISIT05-Report-October-2006.pdf] * ITW 2005 New Zealand (no report) * Technical Co-Sponsorships * CISS 2006, Allerton 2006, CWIT 2007, CISS 2007, ITA 2007 6 Conference Issues (Grant) Report of the Ad hoc Committee on Conferences and their proposal to form a Standing Conference Committee ["PDF":AdHocCCRptAug06.pdf] 7 Bylaws Committee (Fossorier) Report of Bylaws Committee ["PDF":bylaws-report.pdf] IEEE mandated changes to Constitutions and Bylaws ["PDF":musthaves.pdf] Proposed revisions to IT Society Constitution ["PDF":Constitution-rev2.pdf] Proposed revisions to IT Society Bylaws ["PDF":2-bylaws-rev3.pdf] 8 IT Society Website and Online Editor ["Link":oe-report-allerton2006] 9 Student Committee (Goldsmith) ["PDF":Student-BoG-rpt-Sept-06.pdf] 10 Funding for information theory research (Neuhoff). Examples of what another group is doing ["PDF":TCS-CommitteePage.pdf], ["PDF":Karp-Report.pdf] 11 Availability of Classic Information Theory Books (Sandeep Pradhan) ["PDF":classic.pdf] 12 New Business 13 Adjourn