Please let us know what you think about the format of future of ISITs by taking this survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHSZ29L With ISIT now running, it is a great time to let us know what you think.

The Student and Outreach Subcommittee and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the IEEE IT society are organizing a virtual mentorship event during the ISIT 2021 conference, on topics relevant to the student, postdoc and young faculty community of the IT society.

The IT Society's Student and Outreach subcommittee is excited to announce a live Q&A session with this year’s Shannon Award recipient Alon Orlitsky. Register by July 16 at https://2021.ieee-isit.org/MeetShannonLecturer.asp

2021 ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award Recipients Named

ISIT 2021 - Meet the 2021 Shannon Lecturer, Alon Orlitsky, during a live Q&A session.

ISIT 2021 begins on July 12, and there is still time to register. A welcome message video is now available, with an overview of the program and session format. https://2021.ieee-isit.org/#footer

Gerhard Kramer has been named recipient of the 2021 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.

WITHITS is recruiting volunteers as table hosts for networking event at ISIT2021. We are planning a virtual networking roundtables event for WITHITS at ISIT this year, and we are looking for people willing to help virtually host a table at this event. 

Call for papers - Entropy: Special Issue "Information Theory and Machine Learning". The goal of the special issue is to collect new results in using information theoretic thinking to solve machine learning problems.

Changho Suh named recipient of the 2021 James L. Massey Award

Call for nominations for the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JSAIT

Anuran Makur's thesis "Information Contraction and Decomposition" has been awarded the 2021 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.

The 2021 North American School of Information Theory will take place next week, featuring six tutorials.

The Guangzhou Section Chapter named 2021 Chapter of the Year.

The ISIT2021 technical program is now available at https://2021.ieee-isit.org/TechnicalProgram.asp . The virtual ISIT2021 begins on Monday, July 12 at 7 am (Australian Eastern Standard Time). It may still be Sunday for many people.

Call for papers — this JSAIT special issue will focus on exploring how new advances in information theory can impact future communication systems. Submission deadline is September 1, 2021.

Registration for posters and attendance of the 2021 North American School of Information Theory has opened.

The Student and Outreach Subcommittee of the Information Theory Society is proud to present the ”Four Minutes, Two Techniques Contest”, an event opened to students registered to ISIT 2021.

ITSoc will be providing scholarships for undergraduate students from groups that are currently underrepresented in ITSoc to attend ISIT2021 and ITSoc schools. IEEE membership and registration are covered. Applications are due by Monday, June 7.

The deadline for submissions to the ISIT2021 Recent Results Session has been extended until 7 May 2021 (23:55 Hawaii time)