Table of Contents

December 1996 Issue

• JACOB ZIV wins the 1997 Claude E. Shannon Award
• President's Column
• From the Editor
• Historian's Column
• Awards
• Minutes of the IT Society Board of Governors meeting
• Call for nominations: IEEE Society Fellows
• Call for nominations: IEEE Technical Field Awards and Teaching Awards
• Call for nominations: IT Society Paper Award
• Call for Papers: 1997 Conference on Information Systems and Sciences
• Call for Papers: 1998 IEEE International Information Theory Workshop
• Meeting Report: Essen meeting on Fundamental Structures of Information
• Symposium Report: 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications
• New Books