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The Purdue Center for Science of Information (PCSoI) seeks a Strategic Relations and Funding Director. The successful candidate will work in support of faculty grant proposals and other research development efforts at PCSoI in areas of information science (specifically Big Data, Communications, and Life Science Computation). Assist in identifying, preparing, submitting, monitoring and managing grants from external sources. Focus on coordinating the funding activities of PCSoI and identifying potential revenue from external sources such as national and state governmental agencies as well as non-governmental agencies such as foundations, businesses, national labs and other organizations.

I have two openings for PhD students in my group in the Electrical Engineering Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). One opening is in the fields of Network Information Theory, Network Coding, Index Coding and a second in the study of dimension reduction and "core-sets" in the context of Big Data analysis.

Manuscripts are solicited for a Proceedings of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Special issue on 'Foundations and Applications of Science of Information'. Manuscript deadline is August 31, 2015.

The 2016 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Technical Field Award Recipients were announced this week.

The organizers of ITW 2015 in Jerusalem have uploaded a number of photos and video from the workshop, including a panel on the history of information theory with Anthony Ephremides, Robert Gallager, Andrew Viterbi, G. David Forney, Sergio Verdú, and Jacob Ziv.

The 2015 North American School of Information Theory (NASIT) will be held on August 10-13, 2015, at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.

Prof. Namrata Vaswani (http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata) is looking for a postdoc and/or Ph.D. student. Her resea