The 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients were announced this week.

The organizers of ITW 2015 in Jerusalem have uploaded a number of photos and video from the workshop, including a panel on the history of information theory with Anthony Ephremides, Robert Gallager, Andrew Viterbi, G. David Forney, Sergio Verdú, and Jacob Ziv.

The 2015 North American School of Information Theory (NASIT) will be held on August 10-13, 2015, at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.

Prof. Namrata Vaswani (http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata) is looking for a postdoc and/or Ph.D. student. Her research lies at the intersection of signal/information processing and machine learning for high dimensional problems. In recent years, her group has worked on developing and analyzing online algorithms for various high-dimensional structured data recovery problems such as online sparse matrix recovery (recursive recovery of sparse vector sequences) or dynamic compressed sensing, online robust principal components' analysis (PCA) and online matrix completion, sparse PCA etc.

Dr. Carlos R. P. Hartmann's tribute

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Several videos produced by Women in Information Theory (WITHITS) are now available online.

Call for nominations for 2014 IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee (a) Best paper award (b) Best student paper award Nomination deadline: June 30th 2015

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished results in information theory for the Recent Results Poster Session.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of green networking and communication for 5G cellular networks.

Information Theorist Robert Ash passed away on April 15, 2015, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in Urbana, IL.

Han Vinck named recipient of the 2014 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award for his longstanding contributions to the society.

Two PhD positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications. Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Committee (ERC).

IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter: call for contributions.

The James. L Massey award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by a Society member under 40 years of age in the Information Theory community. The award is given annually to a single recipient and includes a plaque and $1000 honorarium.

The Marconi Society was established in 1974 to honor Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel laureate who invented radio (wireless telegraphy) Along with the annual Marconi Prize to a living scientist or scientists whose contributions in the field of information and communications science have benefited mankind, the Society recognizes young scientists and engineers with the potential to make game-changing contributions in the field of communications and the Internet. We are now seeking nominations for the 2015 Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards, which will be presented in London on Oct. 20th at the Royal Society. Young Scholars receive a $4000 cash prize plus $1000 in expenses to attend the event. This is an opportunity for them to gain well-deserved recognition, and meet and network with some of the industry's best-known scientists and engineers.