Table of Contents, December 1998 Issue

• Editor's Column
• Tadao Kasami wins the 1999 CLAUDE E. SHANNON AWARD
• 1998 Information Theory Society Paper Award is awarded to Venkat Anantharam and Sergio Verdu
• Jacob Ziv Receives the Eduard Rhein Basic Research Award
• Giorgio Taricco is winner of the Information Theory Society Logo Contest
• 1998 Shannon Lecture, "The Sphere Packing Problem," N. J. A. Sloane
• ISIT'98 Plenary Lecture Report: "From Matched Filters to Martingales," Thomas Kailath
• Reflections of Some Shannon Lecturers (continued)
• President's Column
• Historian's Column
• Obituary Dwight O. North
• Call For Papers, 1999 INFORMATION THEORY WORKSHOP, Kruger National Park, South Africa
• Call for Papers, 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
• Minutes of the Board of Governor's Meeting, Killarney, June 22, 1998
• Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Information Theory in Siberia
• Workshop Report: "Current Trends in Applications of Information Theory"
• Workshop Report: "Codes and Trees: Algorithmic and Information Theoretic Approach"
• Ahlswede Fest-Symposium
• New Books