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Peter Shor

Shannon Award for 2025

The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Peter Shor is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2025.

(Photo: Peter Harting, MIT News)

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2024 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Workshop

The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Shenzhen, China, Nov. 24–28, 2024.

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鶹ýӳ BITS Information Theory's Role in 6G

The most recent issue of 鶹ýӳ BITS the Information Theory Magazine is on the role of Information Theory in 6G.

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International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications 2024

ISITA 2024 will be held on November 10-13 at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, paper submission deadline is April 30, AoE.

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Broadening Participation in the IT Society

The Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee introduces the new IT Society Volunteer website.

Information Theory Society

The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society is the premier professional society dedicated to the advancement of the mathematical underpinnings of information technology for the benefit of humanity. Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process.

Aspects of Our Society

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Outreach
A gathering of videos, books and more that show how information theory impacts our lives.
Meet IT Society Students
The Student and Outreach Subcommittee plans student and outreach activities at symposia and workshops.
Read Our Newsletter
The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society Newsletter connects our members and is published four times a year.  Beginning with the March 2022 issue, the Newsletter is online only.

Upcoming Events

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

News

Call for Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers

The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society solicits nominations for the 2025 Padovani Lecturer, the 2025…

Sep 23, 2024
Call for Nominations: Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award

The Society solicits nominations for the inaugural 鶹ýӳ Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award. Deadline:…

Sep 23, 2024
Dr. Mario Diaz Torres: Obituary and Request for Help

We regret to share that the IT Society lost a rising information theorist and statistician Dr.…

Sep 17, 2024
Urbashi Mitra is the winner of the 2024 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

Urbashi Mitra was announced at ISIT2024 as the winner of the 2024 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished…

Jul 12, 2024

Conferences

20-23 Oct, 2024
Chicago
FOCS 2024

鶹ýӳ 65th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) will be held in Chicago, IL,…

21-24 Oct, 2024
South Korea
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…

10-13 Nov, 2024
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TAIWAN
2024 The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2024)

The 2024 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA) will be held…

Jobs Board

Research Staff Member - CCR Princeton
Center for Communications Research -- Princeton

The Center for Communications Research, Princeton (CCR Princeton) is seeking new permanent research…

Sep 25, 2024
Polytechnique Montréal - Professor of Electrical Engineering - Information, coding, machine learning or signal processing theory
Polytechnique Montréal

The Department of Electrical Engineering of Polytechnique Montréal is seeking applications for the…

Sep 22, 2024
Research Fellow (Postdoc) in Quantum Information Theory
The University of Melbourne

You will conduct research in Quantum Information Theory, focusing on fundamental limitations in…

Sep 5, 2024

Recent Journal Issues

鶹ýӳ Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

JSAIT is a multi-disciplinary journal of special issues.

鶹ýӳ Transactions on Information Theory

ճ鶹ýӳ Transactions on Information Theory publishes papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.

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Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences