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

The ISIT 2014 preliminary program is now available at http://www.isit2014.org/

The submission deadline has been extended to May 11th, 2014.

Early registration for ISIT 2014 ends on May 4th, 2014.

Paper submission is now open for SCC 2015 in Hamburg, Germany (February 2-5, 2015). The submission deadline is August 1, 2014.

The paper submission deadline is 4 May 2014. See http://itw2014.jaist.ac.jp for details.