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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Claude E. Shannon Award
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
Goldsmith Lecturer
Information Theory Society Paper Award
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
Padovani Lecturer
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
Events
IEEE Globecom 2024 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers
Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2024) is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 12 August 2024.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) - October 21-24, 2024, South Korea
We are pleased to invite original papers to the Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) held in conjunction with the WiOpt 2024, South Korea.
Conferences
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
ISIT Workshop: NeurIT: Information theory in neuroscience and neuroengineering CFP
Neuroscience + Neuroengineering + IT = new theory and revolutionary applications.
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ISIT 2024 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning
The ISIT 2024 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning is…
Job list
PhD Position in Quantum Coding and Information Theory
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Post-Doc position on Real-Time Communication Networks
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PhD position on advanced technologies of future wireless networks
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Postdoc and Senior Researcher Positions at EURECOM, France
Princeton University - Assistant, Associate, Full Professor in Quantum Science and engineering
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Assistant Professor in Communications and Networking
Postdoc Positions at King's College London
Doctoral Position in Data Science/Machine Learning
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Faculty Position at All Levels in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University
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Faculty Opening at the University of Cambridge: Assistant/Associate Professor in Innovative Computational Methods
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Postdoctoral Position on Information-theoretic Foundations of Generative Models
PhD Vacancy at Chalmers University of Technology on Information-Theoretic Methods in Statistical Learning
ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Position on Information Theory and Coding
Faculty Opening in Data Science - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Open PhD-Student Positions at the Intersection of Information Theory, Distributed Computing, Communications and Machine Learning
Research Staff Member - CCR Princeton
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Postdoc Position in Semantics-Aware Goal-Oriented Communications
PhD and Postdocs Positions in Communication and Information Theory at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
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Quantum Information Theory Postdocs
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Postdoctoral Research Associate Position on Quantum Information and Security at King's College London
Postdoctoral Researcher position at the Technical University of Munich
The TUM chair of communications engineering has an opening for a post-doc position at the…
Postdoc position in machine learning over wireless networks
Join Prof. Durisi's team at Chalmers (Gothenburg, Sweden) as a postdoc, to work on an exciting…
News
Recipients of the 2024 IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award: Justin Singh Kang and Wei Yu
The Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications…
2024 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Flavio du Pin Calmon
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…
2024 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award awarded to Sophie H. Yu
The Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award award is granted annually to the author of an outstanding…
Call for nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
The JSAIT Steering Committee requests nominations for the next EiC with deadline June 15, 2024.
News
IEEE Information Theory Society Call for 2023 Award Nominations
Aylin Yener Has Been Elected To Be the Next IEEE Division IX Director
Submission Deadline Extended: JSAIT Issue on Causality and its Fundamental Limits and Applications
Frank Kschischang Awarded 2023 IEEE Hamming Medal
Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
2022 Chicago Workshop on Coding and Learning
2022 Information Theory Society Paper Award Recipients Named
Contributions for Society Newsletter
ISIT 2023: Submission Site is Open
Submission Deadline Approaching: JSAIT Issue on Foundations of Sensing
JSAIT CFP: Causality: Fundamental Limits and Applications
Deadline extension: JSAIT CFP: Special Issue on Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Modern Applications
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Videos of ISIT 2022 Plenary Lectures Are Now Available
Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief of IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine
Rüdiger Urbanke Named Recipient of the 2023 Claude E. Shannon Award
IEEE BITS: Call for Papers on 6G
JSAIT CFP: Dimensions of Channel Coding: Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Alexander Vardy
Pravin Varaiya has died
2022 ITSoc Chapter of the Year Announced!
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Past meeting
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
BOG Meeting -Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
BOG Meeting - October 2022
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
BOG Meeting - March 2022
BOG Meeting - November 2021
BOG Meeting - June 2021
BOG Meeting - March 2021
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Research In Information Theory
Shannon, Euler, and Mazes
One of Claude Shannon’s best remembered “toys” was his maze-solving machine, created by partitions on a rectangular grid. A mechanical mouse was started at one point in the maze with the task of finding cheese at another point. Relays under the board guided successive moves, each of which were taken in the first open counterclockwise direction from the previous move. In belated honor of Shannon’s centenary and of amnesia in the mouse at age 70, we compare this deterministic search strategy with ...
6G: The Personal Tactile Internet—And Open Questions for Information Theory
The initial vision of cellular communications was to deliver ubiquitous voice communications to anyone anywhere. In a simplified view, 1G delivered voice services for business customers, and only 2G for consumers. Next, this also initiated the appetite for cellular data, for which 3G was designed. However, Blackberry delivered business smartphones, and 4G made smartphones a consumer device. The promise of 5G is to start the Tactile Internet, to control real and virtual objects in real-time via c...
Function Load Balancing Over Networks
Using networks as a means of computing can reduce the communication flow over networks. We propose to distribute the computation load in stationary networks and formulate a flow-based delay minimization problem that jointly captures the costs of communications and computation. We exploit the distributed compression scheme of Slepian-Wolf that is applicable under any protocol information. We introduce the notion of entropic surjectivity as a measure of function’s sparsity and to understand the li...
Reed–Muller Codes: Theory and Algorithms
Reed-Muller (RM) codes are among the oldest, simplest and perhaps most ubiquitous family of codes. They are used in many areas of coding theory in both electrical engineering and computer science. Yet, many of their important properties are still under investigation. This paper covers some of the recent developments regarding the weight enumerator and the capacity-achieving properties of RM codes, as well as some of the algorithmic developments. In particular, the paper discusses the recent conn...
Deep Neural Network Approximation Theory
This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount of training data. Concretely, we consider Kolmogorov-optimal approximation through deep neural networks with the guiding theme being a relation between the complexity of the function (class) to be approximated and the complexity of the approximating network in terms of connectivity and memory requirements for storing t...
Quantum Blahut-Arimoto Algorithms
We generalize alternating optimization algorithms of Blahut-Arimoto type to the quantum setting. In particular, we give iterative algorithms to compute the mutual information of quantum channels, the thermodynamic capacity of quantum channels, the coherent information of less noisy quantum channels, and the Holevo quantity of classical-quantum channels. Our convergence analysis is based on quantum entropy inequalities and leads to a priori additive eps-approximations after O(eps^(-1)*log N) iter...
A Universal Low Complexity Compression Algorithm for Sparse Marked Graphs
Many modern applications involve accessing and processing graphical data, i.e. data that is naturally indexed by graphs. Examples come from internet graphs, social networks, genomics and proteomics, and other sources. The typically large size of such data motivates seeking efficient ways for its compression and decompression. The current compression methods are usually tailored to specific models, or do not provide theoretical guarantees. In this paper, we introduce a low-complexity lossless com...
Asymptotics of MAP Inference in Deep Networks
Deep generative priors are a powerful tool for reconstruction problems with complex data such as images and text. Inverse problems using such models require solving an inference problem of estimating the input and hidden units of the multi-layer network from its output. Maximum a priori (MAP) estimation is a widely-used inference method as it is straightforward to implement, and has been successful in practice. However, rigorous analysis of MAP inference in multi-layer networks is difficult. Thi...
Channel Coding Techniques for Network Communication
Next-generation wireless networks aim to enable order-of-magnitude increases in connectivity, capacity, and speed. Such a goal can be achieved in part by utilizing larger frequency bandwidth or by deploying denser base stations. As the number of wireless devices is exploding, however, it is inevitable that multiple devices communicate over the same time and same spectrum. Consequently, improving the spectral efficiency in wireless networks with multiple senders and receivers becomes the key chal...
Upcoming Events
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