2022 ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award Recipients Named

Toby Berger passed away on May 25, 2022 at the age of 81. He was one of the icons of information theory, recognized with numerous awards including the IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award.

IEEE BITS calls for papers that showcase the role that information theory and coding theory will play in realizing the future of data storage. White paper submission: 1st October 2022.

Qian Yu's thesis "Coded Computing: A Transformative Framework for Resilient, Secure, Private, and Communication Efficient Large Scale Distributed Computing" has been awarded the 2022 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.

Welcome Hye Won Chung, Sanghamitra Dutta, Lalitha Vadlamani and Rashmi Vinayak as the new WITHITS co-chairs!

The deadline for JSAIT Special Issue on Deep Learning Methods for Inverse Problems is extended to June 1st.

During online sessions, November 1-2, 2022

The IT Society is pleased to announce that Mary Wootters has been named the recipient of the 2022 James L. Massey Award

The 2022 Information Theory Workshop seeks proposals for 2.5 hour tutorials. Paper submission deadline has been extended to 13th of May.

The Student and Outreach Subcommittee of the Information Theory Society is proud to present the ”Information Theoretic Duets Contest”, an event open to all ITSoc student members.

Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by May 10, 2022.

Registration Now Open! NASIT 2022 in person in LA August 16-19. Spkrs inc Padovani Lecturer Elza Erkip, Shannon lecturers Alon Orlitsky & Erdal Arikan, Ubli Mitra, Victoria Kostina, Christina Fragouli. Spots filling. nasit-2022.seas.ucla.edu

This special issue aims to advance cutting-edge research in deep learning methods for inverse problems, with an emphasis on its intersection with information theory.

ISIT 2022: Call for Recent Results poster session, the deadline is 15 April. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their most recent results pertaining to information theory and related areas.

The IT Society is pleased to announce that Alon Orlitsky of the University of California, San Diego is the recipient of the 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

The Data Storage Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society (DSTC) invites you to nominate papers for the 2020-2021 DSTC Best Paper Award and the 2020-2021 DSTC Best Student Paper Award. The nomination deadline is July 31, 2022.

The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's special issue on Modern Compression has been extended to April 15, 2022.

Robert Wendell Lucky (Bob Lucky) passed away on March 10, 2022, at the age of 86. He was a research engineer and a manager at multiple levels at Bell Labs and Bellcore. Bob was a pioneer and a leader in our research fields and technical societies.

Alexander Vardy passed away on Friday March 11 2022, at the age of 59.

ISIT 2022: Call for Tutorials, the proposal deadline is 15 March. Call for Recent Results poster session, the deadline is 15 April.