Robert McEliece Has Passed Away Shannon Award winner Robert McEliece passed away on May 8, 2019. May 13, 2019 Brian Kurkoski Robert McEliece, the 2004 Shannon Lecturer, passed away on May 8, 2019 at the age of 76 after a long bout with Parkinson's disease. Read Bob's obituary at . Recent news Celebrating 75 years of Information Theory Symposia Matt LaFleur is back! 2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium Call for expressions of interest for TPC membership of ISIT 2026 2025 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Peter Kairouz JSAIT Special Issue "Energy and Data Efficiency in Artificial Intelligence" JSAIT Special Issue "Theoretical Foundations for 6G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks" ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon – Where Quantum Computing Meets Information Theory
