Due to many requests, we have decided to further extend the submission deadline for the JSAC special issue entitled "Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer” to be Apr. 1st, 2014. This is a hard deadline and no more extension will be given.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2013 Best Paper Award and the 2013 Best Student Paper Award.

The IEEE Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the IEEE IT Paper Award and the IEEE Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.

ITE is a recently released free and open source, multi-platform, Matlab/Octave toolbox that is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities, and kernels on distributions.

The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014. The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers. This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas.

The deadline for poster submission is March 1, 2014.

There is an upcoming IEEE JSAC issue on wireless network coding. The deadline for paper submission is April 1, 2014, with publication planned for February 2015.

The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 24, 2014, at midnight, Eastern Time (New York, USA).

The workshop will feature several student-centered informational, networking, and social events.

Charles T. Retter, a coding theorist and early computer designer, died suddenly on December 30, 2013 at the age of 67 at his home in Exton, PA.

Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society

Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society

Registration is now open for the 2014 European School of Information Theory, which will be held from April 14th to April 18th in Tallinn, Estonia.

ISIT 2014 is now accepting paper submissions. The submission deadline is January 19. Please see: http://www.isit2014.org/paper-submission.php

In recognition of Jim’s great service to and love for Notre Dame, the Notre Dame College of Engineering is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jim’s name.

Four members of the information theory community have been awarded IEEE medals.

The EECS Department at Northwestern University invites applications for multiple positions to start in fall 2014, including: One faculty position for Assistant Professor in Communications, Networking, Control and Related Emerging Areas; Multiple faculty positions in Theoretical Computer Science; One faculty position for Assistant/Associate Professor In Computer Engineering; One faculty Position for Assistant Professor in Database Systems. To apply, visit http://eecs.northwestern.edu/academic-openings.html.