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Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by May 10, 2022.
Apr 28, 2022
Registration Now Open! North American School of Information Theory August 16-19, 2022, in Los Angeles
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
Apr 20, 2022
Call for Papers: Deep Learning Methods for Inverse Problems, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
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.
Apr 17, 2022
ISIT 2022 Call for Recent Results
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.
Apr 14, 2022
Alon Orlitsky Receives the 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
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
Mar 29, 2022
Call for Nominations: 2020-2021 IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee Best Paper 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.
Mar 27, 2022
Extension of Deadline for JSAIT Special Issue
The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's special issue on Modern Compression has been extended to April 15, 2022.
Mar 25, 2022
Bob Lucky Passed Away
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.
Mar 23, 2022
Alexander Vardy, distinguished coding theorist, passed away
Alexander Vardy passed away on Friday March 11 2022, at the age of 59.
Mar 19, 2022
ISIT 2022 Call for Tutorials and Recent Results
ISIT 2022: Call for Tutorials, the proposal deadline is 15 March. Call for Recent Results poster session, the deadline is 15 April.
Mar 11, 2022
Call for Nominations: Information Theory Society Paper Award
Call for Nominations: Nominations and optional letters of endorsement for the Information Theory Society Paper Award must be submitted by March 15 using the online nomination form.
Mar 11, 2022
Weijie Su Selected for SIAM Early Career Prize in Data Science
IT Society member Weijie Su @weijie444 of the University of Pennsylvania is the recipient of the inaugural SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Early Career Prize in 2022. Congratulations!
Mar 10, 2022
2022 Distinguished Lecturers
The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) is also pleased to announce that Prof. Pulkit Grover, Prof. Hamed Hassani, Prof. Parastoo Sadeghi, and Prof. Michèle Wigger, have been named ITSoc Distinguished Lecturers for 2022–2023.
Mar 4, 2022
2022 Goldsmith Lecturer
The IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Professor Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti of the University of Pennsylvania has been named the 2022 Goldsmith Lecturer.
Mar 4, 2022
2022 Padovani Lecturer
The IEEE Information Theory Society is please to announce that Professor Elza Erkip of New York University has been named the 2022 Padovani Lecturer.
Mar 4, 2022
The Bit Player Screening in Princeton, NJ
The Princeton Garden Theatre in Princeton, NJ will be hosting a screening of The Bit Player on Thursday, April 7th, 2022.
Mar 3, 2022
Call for Papers: Modern Compression, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
This special issue for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory focuses on cutting-edge research in modern compression.
Mar 1, 2022
JSAIT CFP: Special Issue Deep Learning for Inverse Problems
JSAIT call for papers on deep learning methods for inverse problems. Papers are due May 15, 2022.
Feb 24, 2022
IEEE BITS Call for Papers on “Quantum Computation and Information”
IEEE BITS calls for papers on how information theorists are helping the "second quantum revolution" and what potential opportunities lie ahead. White paper submission: 1st April 2022.
Feb 23, 2022
IEEE Spectrum: Claude Shannon Paved the Way for AI?
A short article appearing in the February 2022 issue of IEEE Spectrum argues that Claude Shannon, besides inventing information theory and the logic gate, had a contribution to machine learning.
Feb 23, 2022

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