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Jul 5, 2017
2018 Shannon Award goes to Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck will receive the 2018 Claude E. Shannon Award and deliver the 2018 Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2018. The award was announced at the ISIT 2017 Banquet in Aachen.
Jul 1, 2017
2017 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award Winners
Three papers were selected to be awarded the 2017 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award.
Jul 1, 2017
Muriel Médard awarded the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, formerly known as IT Society Distinguished Service Award, honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. The award was announced at the ISIT Awards Session in Aachen, Germany.
Jun 28, 2017
Postdoctoral Position at Penn State
A post doctoral scholar position is available in The Electrical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus, under the direction of Prof. Aylin Yener.
Jun 28, 2017
CFP: JSTSP Special Issue on “Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processingâ€
The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing will publish an Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing. Manuscripts are due December 1, 2017.
Jun 28, 2017
Mentoring Event at ISIT
Jun 24, 2017
June 2017 issue of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society Newsletter
The June 2017 issue of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society Newsletter is available online.
Jun 13, 2017
Amin Shokrollahi named 2017 Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecture is held annually at the North American School of Information Theory. The Lecturer is selected by the Membership and Chapters Committee.
Jun 6, 2017
David Tse to receive 2017 Shannon Award at ISIT
Although announced at ISIT 2016, the 2017 Shannon Award is given at ISIT 2017, where Prof. David Tse of Stanford University will deliver the Shannon Award Lecture.
Jun 6, 2017
2017 Information Theory Society Awardees
The IT Society will present these awards at the annual Awards Banquet at ISIT in Aachen on Wednesday, 28 June, 2017.
Jun 6, 2017
ITSOC Members Elevated to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Fellow
Twelve members of the IT Society have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to their fields.
Jun 6, 2017
ITSOC Members Win 2017 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Awards
ITSOC members have been awarded several prestigious Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» awards for 2017.
Jun 6, 2017
Final program available
Jun 5, 2017
WITHITS Event at ISIT 2017
WITHITS will host a networking event on the Monday of ISIT.
Jun 1, 2017
Lecture slides are now online
May 30, 2017
2017 NASIT program updated!
Check out the latest program
May 26, 2017
Postdoctoral Position at University of Southern California
postdoctoral position at the cross section of information theory, distributed/parallel computing, and data analytics.
May 16, 2017
Mary Elizabeth Moore Shannon, 95
The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory is sad to report the passing of Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Moore Shannon.
May 16, 2017
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