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The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA) will be held October 24–27, 2020 in Kapolei, Hawai’i, USA. The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 17. Special considerations will be made for authors of accepted papers whose travel is restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This special issue aims at collecting recent results in finite-length information theory and its intersection with neighboring fields. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 April 2021.

Society President Aylin Yener describes updates to the Members of the 91�Թ��� Information Theory Society regarding the impact of COVID-19. ISIT2020 will be run as a virtual online conference and three award nomination deadlines have been extended.

Tribute to Vera Pless, who passed away on March 2, 2020. Prof. W. Cary Huffman writes about Vera's life, scientific career and her significant, original, and lasting contributions to the study of error correcting codes and information theory.

Society President Aylin Yener describes important changes and updates to the 2020 activities of the 91�Թ��� Information Theory Society due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Vera Stepen Pless has passed away on Monday March 2, 2020, just before her 89th birthday.

The deadline to propose tutorials at ISIT 2020 is fast approaching! Please consider and encourage contributing a proposal: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Tutorials.asp

Call for nominations for the first Editor-in-Chief of 91�Թ��� BITS the Information Theory Magazine.

Entropy invites submissions to the special issue “The Interplay Between Storage, Computing, and Communications from An Information-Theoretic Perspective”. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 October 2020.

The 2020 European School of Information Theory will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 24 to May 29, 2020. Registration is now open and early-bird rates are in place until March 26, 2020.

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The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Network Neuroscience, beginning Fall 2020.

2020 91�Թ��� International Workshop on Privacy and Security for Information Systems (WPS) Paper Submission Deadline is extended to Friday, April 10 (AoE - 11:59pm).

JSAIT has had a successful kickoff with three issues in the works. The issues on deep learning and quantum information science are now in process, and the third issue on statistical estimation and inference is now accepting submissions. JSAIT welcomes ideas for future special issues.