The University of Newcastle, Australia, is offering a full 3-year PhD scholarship in network information theory. The scholarship includes tuition fees, health cover, and a living allowance of AUD 24,653 per annum.

The following ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2013 to Dec. 31 2015).

You are invited to attend the Communication Sciences Institute's 30th Anniversary Conference and Celebration at USC. The conference will feature panels, technical talks by alumni and friends, a poster session for all attendees, memorials to Irving Reed and Robert Gagliardi, a historical retrospective and social events. More information can be found at http://csi.usc.edu/csi30/

We invite original contributions for IEEE JSAC special issue on Communication Methodologies for the Next-Generation Storage Systems

Media resources for ISIT 2012 are now available at http://media.itsoc.org/isit2012

A tenure track faculty position in Applied Mathematics at the Assistant Professor level is available at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Emeritus Professor Irving S. Reed of USC passed away on September 11th, 2012 at the age of 88.

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Voting is open for the BoG Election.

The submission date for the white paper for IEEE SPM special issue on cyber-security and privacy has been extended to Tuesday September 4, 2012

Annual IT awards announced. Summary of 2011 Shannon Lecture. President's Column. BOG meeting minutes. Historian and Puzzle Columns.

Annual IT Awards Announced. Summary of 2011 Shannon Lecture. President's Column. IT BOG Minutes.

The Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics are planning a memorial gathering to celebrate Tom Cover's life.

Special Issue on on Signal Processing for Cyber‐security and Privacy

The Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society passed a resolution regarding reviewing duties for the Transactions at its July 1, 2012, meeting.

The creation of the Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award was announced during the awards luncheon at ISIT.