The Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research offers a postdoc position in the broad areas of graph-based coding theory, polar codes, their applications (e.g., in very low complexity codes, coding for control or flash storage), or network information theory, starting January 1, 2015.

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

Daniel J. Costello has been named the recipient of IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Vice President's Recognition Award

NJIT offers a postdoc position in the broad areas of graph-based coding theory, polar codes, their applications (e.g., in very low complexity codes, coding for control or storage), and network information theory, starting January 1, 2015.

The plenaries of ISIT 2014 are now available online at http://media.itsoc.org/isit.hmtl

Robert Calderbank was announced as the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2015 in Hong-Kong.

Marco Dalai has been awarded the 2014 Information Theory Society Paper Award for his paper "Lower Bounds on the Probability of Error for Classical and Classical-Quantum Channels"

Christoph Bunte and Artyom Sharov to receive Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at ISIT 2015.

Lecturer/Clinical Asst or Assoc Professor-Electrical and Computer Engineering opening in the area of systems (signal processing, communications, control, robotics) at the University of Illinois at Chicago located in downtown Chicago.

The IEEE Information Theory Society has been awarded the 2014 IEEE Educational Activities Board Society/Council Professional Development Award.

Sanjoy Mitter, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, for his contributions to the unification of communications and control.

Daniel J. Costello, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.

Student Committee Event at ISIT 2014

Join us in congratulating ITSoc Members for their achievements

Joachim Hagenauer has been named the first recipient of the Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG)

The deadline for Workshop on Physical-layer methods for wireless security has been extended to June 7. For details, please see http://users.wpi.edu/~llai/CNS-workshop/

Prof. En-hui Yang from the University of Waterloo will be the next Padovani Lecturer. He will deliver his lecture at the 2014 North-American School of Information Theory in Toronto, Canada

January 19th to 30th, 2015 - Campinas-SP, Brazil http://www.ime.unicamp.br/SPCodingSchool