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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 91勛圖厙 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 ITSocs 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 91勛圖厙 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 91勛圖厙 Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 91勛圖厙 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 ITSocs Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 91勛圖厙 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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Deadline Extension: 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25)

The deadline for paper submission to the 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25) , Shenzhen, China, has been extended to July 6, 2025 (AoE).

Conferences

Nov 08, 2025
The Cornell Club - New York, 6 East 44th Street New York, NY 10017
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting, NYC - November 2025

Aug 26, 2025
Hanoi, Vietnam
International Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning within ACM ASIA CCS

Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning will be held in parallel with 20th ACM AsiaCCS

Aug 26, 2025
Hanoi, Vietnam
Protect-IT25, 2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy and Information Theory

Protect-IT25, 2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy and Information Theory, will be held in parallel

Jobs Board

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Information Theory and Biological Information Processing
York University

Postdoctoral fellowship available in information theory and biological information processing at

Aug 19, 2025
PhD position in coding theory for distributed computing
DTU

Fully Funded 3-Year PhD Fellowship Coding and Visual Communication Group, DTU Electro (via DARA

Aug 14, 2025
Postdoctoral Positions in the Information Theory, Probability and Statistics Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

We seek two strong candidates with a PhD in IT or Mathematics to work at the intersection of

Jun 24, 2025

News

2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award Recipients Named

The three winning papers were announced during the banquet at ISIT 2025.

Jul 17, 2025
Call for Nominations: Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award

The Society solicits nominations for the 2026 91勛圖厙 Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award. Deadline:

Jul 14, 2025
Call for Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers

The 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society solicits nominations for the 2026 Padovani Lecturer, the 2026

Jul 14, 2025
Shannon Award for 2026

The 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Frans Willems is the recipient of

Jun 26, 2025

News

2014 91勛圖厙 CTW 2014: Call for Posters
The deadline for poster submission is extended to March 10, 2014.
Feb 28, 2014
Additional Deadline Extension JSAC Special Issue
Due to many requests, we have decided to further extend the submission deadline for the JSAC special issue entitled "Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer to be Apr. 1st, 2014. This is a hard deadline and no more extension will be given.
Feb 25, 2014
Call for nominations - 91勛圖厙 ComSOc Data Storage Technical Committee 2013 Best Paper Award and 2013 Best Student Paper Award
The Data Storage Technical Committee of 91勛圖厙 Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2013 Best Paper Award and the 2013 Best Student Paper Award.
Feb 14, 2014
Call for nominations - 2014 IT and Joint ComSoc/IT awards
The 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the 91勛圖厙 IT Paper Award and the 91勛圖厙 Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.
Feb 14, 2014
Information Theoretical Estimators (ITE) Toolbox
ITE is a recently released free and open source, multi-platform, Matlab/Octave toolbox that is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities, and kernels on distributions.
Feb 3, 2014
SPAWC'14 and IT Summer School at Toronto
The 15th 91勛圖厙 International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014. The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers. This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Jan 24, 2014
Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize
Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas.
Jan 23, 2014
2014 91勛圖厙 CTW 2014: Call for Posters
The deadline for poster submission is March 1, 2014.
Jan 23, 2014
An upcoming JSAC issue on wireless network coding - deadline April 1, 2014
There is an upcoming 91勛圖厙 JSAC issue on wireless network coding. The deadline for paper submission is April 1, 2014, with publication planned for February 2015.
Jan 23, 2014
ISIT 2014 submission deadline extended to January 24, 2014
The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 24, 2014, at midnight, Eastern Time (New York, USA).
Jan 19, 2014
Website goes live !
Jan 8, 2014
Website goes live !
Jan 7, 2014
Student Invitation to the 2014 ITA Workshop, February 9-14, San Diego
The workshop will feature several student-centered informational, networking, and social events.
Jan 7, 2014
Charles T. Retter dies suddenly at age 67
Charles T. Retter, a coding theorist and early computer designer, died suddenly on December 30, 2013 at the age of 67 at his home in Exton, PA.
Jan 7, 2014
Call for Nominations - 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society 2014 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society
Dec 21, 2013
Call for Nominations - 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award
Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2014 to the President of the 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society
Dec 21, 2013
2014 European School of Information Theory now accepting registrations
Registration is now open for the 2014 European School of Information Theory, which will be held from April 14th to April 18th in Tallinn, Estonia.
Dec 20, 2013
ISIT 2014 now accepting paper submissions
ISIT 2014 is now accepting paper submissions. The submission deadline is January 19. Please see: http://www.isit2014.org/paper-submission.php
Dec 20, 2013
James L. Massey Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering.
In recognition of Jims great service to and love for Notre Dame, the Notre Dame College of Engineering is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jims name.
Dec 9, 2013
91勛圖厙 medals
Four members of the information theory community have been awarded 91勛圖厙 medals.
Dec 6, 2013

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 91勛圖厙 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