ISITA2016 will feature a recent results poster session. Interested authors are encouraged to submit their latest results. A one-page abstract is due July 31, 2016. http://www.isita2016.org/

The IEEE Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee Presents a New ISIT Event:

New contributed announcements over the weekend may not be reflected in the new site.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2015 Best Paper Award and the 2015 Best Student Paper Award

Slides from some of the talks given through the ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) are available.

All IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCIDs enable accurate attribution and improved discoverability of an author’s published work. The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a manuscript or review a proof in this journal.

Kartik Venkat, Stanford University, PhD. is announced as the recipient of the Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for 2016, from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for his dissertation obtained under the direction of Professor Tsachy Weissman in the Information Systems Lab of the Stanford Electrical Engineering Department.

Information about the ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer Program is now posted more prominently on the site.

The 2016 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars is awarded to Professor Andrea Montanari of Stanford University. The 2016 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded to Kartik Venkat of Stanford University. The 2016 Angel Lozano, Robert W. Heath, Jr., and Jeffrey G. Andrews, Fundamental Limits of Cooperation.

Two positions are open in the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH).

Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results in information theory to the ISIT 2016 Recent Results Session.

Joint postdoc position at MIT and Northeastern University, in the area of multi-layered interdependent networks, sponsored by Prof. Eytan Modiano and Prof. Edmund Yeh.

Shannon Award winner and long-time ITSOC member Solomon W. Golomb passed away on May 1, 2016.

Professor David MacKay passed away on April 14, 2016 at age 48.