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Awards

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.

Events

Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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Information Theory Workshop 2026

The 2026 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Workshop will be held in the beautiful desert city of Tempe, Arizona, USA between November 1–4, 2026. We welcome original contributions across all areas of information theory.

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91³Ô¹ÏÍø Globecom 2025 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers

Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Globecom 2025) is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 15 July 2025.

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BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.

Conferences

Jun 22, 2025
Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, 2nd Floor, Room: Vandenberg
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.

27-29 Jul, 2025
Guangzhou, China
2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications and Information Theory (AICIT2025)

The 2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications…

03-08 Aug, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

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Jobs Board

Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Machine Learning
Simula UiB

We are seeking a candidate with a PhD degree to work in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of…

Jun 19, 2025
Postdoc Positions in Communication, Quantum, Security, & ML
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)

Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking for…

May 29, 2025
Research Assistant in Information Theory x 3
University of Cambridge

Up to three Research Assistant positions to work on Shannon Theory at the University of Cambridge.

May 21, 2025

News

Live-Stream of Peter Shor's Shannon Lecture

This year's Shannon Lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom.

Jun 19, 2025
Matt LaFleur is back!

The Society welcomes Matt LaFleur as its new Business Operations Manager.

Jun 5, 2025
2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium,…

Jun 3, 2025
2025 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Peter Kairouz

The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…

May 26, 2025

News

Job-opening: Lecturer/Clinical Asst or Assoc Professor-Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIC
Lecturer/Clinical Asst or Assoc Professor-Electrical and Computer Engineering opening in the area of systems (signal processing, communications, control, robotics) at the University of Illinois at Chicago located in downtown Chicago.
Jul 2, 2014
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society receives the 2014 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Educational Activities Board Society/Council Professional Development Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society has been awarded the 2014 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Educational Activities Board Society/Council Professional Development Award.
Jun 30, 2014
Sanjoy Mitter to receive the 2015 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Eric E. Sumner Award
Sanjoy Mitter, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the recipient of the 2015 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Eric E. Sumner Award, for his contributions to the unification of communications and control.
Jun 25, 2014
Daniel J. Costello to receive the 2015 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Daniel J. Costello, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the recipient of the 2015 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.
Jun 25, 2014
Meet the Shannon Awardee at ISIT 2014
Student Committee Event at ISIT 2014
Jun 25, 2014
Recent Awards and Honors
Join us in congratulating ITSoc Members for their achievements
Jun 18, 2014
Joachim Hagenauer wins 2014 Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG)
Joachim Hagenauer has been named the first recipient of the Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG)
Jun 11, 2014
Deadline extended to June 7 for Workshop on Physical-layer methods for wireless security
The deadline for Workshop on Physical-layer methods for wireless security has been extended to June 7. For details, please see http://users.wpi.edu/~llai/CNS-workshop/
May 26, 2014
Prof. En-hui Yang named 2014 Padovani Lecturer
Prof. En-hui Yang from the University of Waterloo will be the next Padovani Lecturer. He will deliver his lecture at the 2014 North-American School of Information Theory in Toronto, Canada
May 19, 2014
SP Coding and Information School
January 19th to 30th, 2015 - Campinas-SP, Brazil http://www.ime.unicamp.br/SPCodingSchool
May 17, 2014
ISIT 2014 Preliminary Program Available
The ISIT 2014 preliminary program is now available at http://www.isit2014.org/
May 3, 2014
ITW 2014 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: Deadline extended to May 11th, 2014
The submission deadline has been extended to May 11th, 2014.
May 2, 2014
ISIT 2014 - early registration ends May 4th
Early registration for ISIT 2014 ends on May 4th, 2014.
Apr 29, 2014
International Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC 2015), February 2-5, 2015, Hamburg, Germany
Paper submission is now open for SCC 2015 in Hamburg, Germany (February 2-5, 2015). The submission deadline is August 1, 2014.
Apr 29, 2014
ITW 2014 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: Deadline on May 4th, 2014
The paper submission deadline is 4 May 2014. See http://itw2014.jaist.ac.jp for details.
Apr 24, 2014
SP Coding and Information School
The SPCodingSchool is a two week long school on coding and information theory which will be held in Brazil in January 19 to 30, 2015. Leading researchers in these areas will give both introductory and advanced courses. Students (up to 90) will be fully supported by Fapesp (including flight tickets and a grant to cover other expenses). Details at http://www.ime.unicamp.br/spcodingschool/
Apr 17, 2014
JTG/91³Ô¹ÏÍø IT Society Summer School 2014
A summer school with two mini-courses in "Statistical Physics Methods in Coding and Information Theory" and "The Middle Path to Understand Complex Systems: A Mesoscopic Perspective on Network Dynamics" from June 16-19 at IIT Madras.
Apr 17, 2014
Speakers Announced
Apr 15, 2014

Past meeting

BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
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.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BoG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BoG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - June 2021
The second BoG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.

Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences

Upcoming Events

The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools