A toolbox for the computation of achievability and converse bound in finite blocklength information theory

We invite original contributions for the IEEE JSAC special issue on Recent Advances in Capacity Approaching Codes.

Imre Csiszár has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. Richard Baraniuk has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

2014 Bell Labs Prize awarded to Emmanuel Abbe to investigate fundamental limits of social networks.

Registration for the 2015 European School of Information Theory (ESIT 2015) has opened.

The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015.

The Claude E. Shannon Award honors consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, formerly known as IT Society Distinguished Service Award, honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society and appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years.

The Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Society Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Information Theory Society

The deadline for submission to the conference track has been extended by one week until November 28

This is just a quick reminder about upcoming deadlines for award nominations.

The 3rd Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) will take place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran on Wednesday May 6th and Thursday May 7th, 2015.

The deadline of papers submission of ITW204 5 is now October 31, 2013(23:59:59pm PDT).

This is the eighth in a series of conferences that aims to bring together the leading researchers in the areas of information theory, quantum information theory, and cryptography. ICITS covers all aspects of information-theoretic security, from relevant mathematical tools to theoretical modeling to implementation. Papers on all technical aspects of these topics are solicited for submission

The manuscript submission deadline has been extend to October 20, 2014

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Original technical contributions are solicited in all areas of Information Theory. Interested authors are invited to submit previously unpublished contributions.

The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015.