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
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
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
2024 JTG/鶹ýӳ ITSoc Summer School
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
鶹ýӳ European School of Information Theory (ESIT) 2024
鶹ýӳ International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2024
Ottawa, ON, Canada
鶹ýӳ North American School of Information Theory (NASIT) 2024
鶹ýӳ East Asian School of Information Theory (EASIT) 2024
Deadline Extension: 鶹ýӳ-ITW'24
News
Recipients of the 2024 鶹ýӳ Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award: Justin Singh Kang and Wei Yu
The Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications…
2024 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Flavio du Pin Calmon
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…
2024 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award awarded to Sophie H. Yu
The Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award award is granted annually to the author of an outstanding…
Call for nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of the 鶹ýӳ Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
The JSAIT Steering Committee requests nominations for the next EiC with deadline June 15, 2024.
Conferences
12th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec'24)
Call for papers: The IH&MMSec workshop has established its reputation as one of the premier…
Annual Graduate School in Mathematical Aspects of Data Science
The Annual Graduate School in Mathematical Aspects of Data Science will be held in Darwin,…
STOC 2024
The 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) will be held in Vancouver, Canada, June…
Jobs Board
Postdoc position in machine learning over wireless networks
Join Prof. Durisi's team at Chalmers (Gothenburg, Sweden) as a postdoc, to work on an exciting…
Quantum Distributed Computing and Communication for Secure Private Information Retrieval
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position - Imperial College London
Applications are invited for multiple Research Associate positions in the intersection of machine…
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Recent Journal Issues
JSAIT is a multi-disciplinary journal of special issues.
ճ鶹ýӳ Transactions on Information Theory publishes papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.
Videos on Information Theory
Research In Information Theory
Shannon, Euler, and Mazes
One of Claude Shannon’s best remembered “toys” was his maze-solving machine, created by partitions on a rectangular grid. A mechanical mouse was started at one point in the maze with the task of finding cheese at another point. Relays under the board guided successive moves, each of which were taken in the first open counterclockwise direction from the previous move. In belated honor of Shannon’s centenary and of amnesia in the mouse at age 70, we compare this deterministic search strategy with ...
6G: The Personal Tactile Internet—And Open Questions for Information Theory
The initial vision of cellular communications was to deliver ubiquitous voice communications to anyone anywhere. In a simplified view, 1G delivered voice services for business customers, and only 2G for consumers. Next, this also initiated the appetite for cellular data, for which 3G was designed. However, Blackberry delivered business smartphones, and 4G made smartphones a consumer device. The promise of 5G is to start the Tactile Internet, to control real and virtual objects in real-time via c...
Function Load Balancing Over Networks
Using networks as a means of computing can reduce the communication flow over networks. We propose to distribute the computation load in stationary networks and formulate a flow-based delay minimization problem that jointly captures the costs of communications and computation. We exploit the distributed compression scheme of Slepian-Wolf that is applicable under any protocol information. We introduce the notion of entropic surjectivity as a measure of function’s sparsity and to understand the li...
Reed–Muller Codes: Theory and Algorithms
Reed-Muller (RM) codes are among the oldest, simplest and perhaps most ubiquitous family of codes. They are used in many areas of coding theory in both electrical engineering and computer science. Yet, many of their important properties are still under investigation. This paper covers some of the recent developments regarding the weight enumerator and the capacity-achieving properties of RM codes, as well as some of the algorithmic developments. In particular, the paper discusses the recent conn...
Deep Neural Network Approximation Theory
This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount of training data. Concretely, we consider Kolmogorov-optimal approximation through deep neural networks with the guiding theme being a relation between the complexity of the function (class) to be approximated and the complexity of the approximating network in terms of connectivity and memory requirements for storing t...