Congratulations to all IT community members who will be elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014.

Postdoctoral position available to investigate the cyber-security of transmission and distribution networks in smart grids.

Proposals for tutorials from members and affiliates of IT society at large are welcome.

Nominations for IEEE Technical Field Awards are now being accepted

Nominations for the Fellow Class of 2015 are now being accepted.

The University of Brescia, Italy, is offering PhD scholarships in Information Engineering.

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Ariel University (Israel) invites applications for a tenure-track Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) post to begin in 2014

Six ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2014 to Dec. 31 2016).

Dr. James Emery Mazo Jr., a world-renowned information theorist, passed away on Sept. 27, 2013, at the age of 76, following a brief illness, at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J.

The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. This is the tenth year that the Prize has been awarded.

Ballots are open until October 1st.

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation.

The 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing will be held from Monday August 18 to Friday August 22 in Bremen, Germany.

The College of Engineering at Notre Dame is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jim Massey’s name

Vladimir (Volodya) Balakirsky passed away August 5 at the age of 55. Volodya was a specialist in information theory with a strong mathematical and analytical background.

Three members of the IEEE Information Theory Society have received 2014 Technical Field Awards.

The 2013 annual IEEE election key dates are Aug. 15-Oct. 1.

The Board of Governors has voted for the 2014 officers.

Pictures and slides of Plenaries from ISIT 2013 are available

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