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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 51ÂÜÀò 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 ITSoc’s 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 51ÂÜÀò 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 51ÂÜÀò Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 51ÂÜÀò 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 ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 51ÂÜÀò 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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Information Theory Workshop 2026

The 2026 51ÂÜÀò Information Theory Workshop will be held in the beautiful desert city of Tempe, Arizona, USA between November 1–4, 2026. We welcome original contributions across all areas of information theory.

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51ÂÜÀò Globecom 2025 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers

Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with 51ÂÜÀò Globecom 2025) is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 15 July 2025.

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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.

Conferences

Jun 22, 2025
Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, 2nd Floor, Room: Vandenberg
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.

27-29 Jul, 2025
Guangzhou, China
2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications and Information Theory (AICIT2025)

The 2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications…

03-08 Aug, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

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Jobs Board

Postdoc Positions in Communication, Quantum, Security, & ML
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)

Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking for…

May 29, 2025
Research Assistant in Information Theory x 3
University of Cambridge

Up to three Research Assistant positions to work on Shannon Theory at the University of Cambridge.

May 21, 2025
PhD Position: Computing and Communicating in Learning Systems — Fully Funded, at EURECOM on the French Riviera
EURECOM

Fully funded PhD on the French Riviera at EURECOM, exploring the future of computing and…

May 16, 2025

News

Matt LaFleur is back!

The Society welcomes Matt LaFleur as its new Business Operations Manager.

Jun 5, 2025
2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium,…

Jun 3, 2025
2025 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Peter Kairouz

The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…

May 26, 2025
ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon – Where Quantum Computing Meets Information Theory

🚀 Join the ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon! Compete June 22–25 to solve real-world problems at the…

May 13, 2025

News

Faculty position in Mathematics and Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Queen's University, Canada
Faculty position in Mathematics and Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Queen's University, Canada
Sep 20, 2018
PhD position: Strategic Communication in Decentralized Networks
Supervision: Maël Le Treust (CNRS Permanent Researcher) ; Funding: Paris Seine Initiative 40k€/year for 3 years ; Location: ETIS laboratory, 6 av. Ponceau, Cergy (Greater Paris), France ; Deadline for application: 10-15-2018
Sep 5, 2018
Submit names for the new ITSOC magazine (Deadline October 13)
The Newsletter will become a magaine, but it needs a name!
Jul 25, 2018
"Information Theory In Small Bits" now available for purchase
The book, written by ITSOC members Christina Fragouli and Anna Scaglione, and illustrated by Scaglione, is aimed at making ideas from information theory accessible to children.
Jul 24, 2018
51ÂÜÀò Launches App for Android/iOS
Download the new app from Google Play or the ITunes store.
Jul 24, 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher Position at Imperial College London
A post-doctoral research associate position is available in the Information Processing and Communications Lab within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Imperial College London. This position is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for project BEACON, which focuses on designing novel communication techniques for wireless networks under extreme energy and delay constraints. This particular position will target employing modern machine learning tools to meet these extreme communication requirements.
Jul 1, 2018
PhD Scholarship in Coding Theory at Monash University
A PhD position in coding theory for distributed storage systems is available at Monash University
Jun 28, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internet of Things Security, Communications, Inference and Learning; Lehigh and Princeton Universities
Postdoc at Lehigh/Princeton desired to make strong theoretical contributions to bounds and achievable approaches for security, communications, inference, or learning for Internet of Things systems using information theoretic, statistical, or mathematical tools.
Jun 25, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internet of Things Security, Communications, Inference and Learning; Lehigh and Princeton Universities
Postdoc at Lehigh/Princeton desired to make strong theoretical contributions to bounds and achievable approaches for security, communications, inference, or learning for Internet of Things systems using information theoretic, statistical, or mathematical tools.
Jun 16, 2018
PhD position in error correction coding and shaping for optical communication
The Coding group at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark has an open PhD position within the topic of information theory and error correction coding and shaping for optical communication. This project is part of collaboration between DTU Fotonik and the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) within the EuroTech Alliance.
May 30, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 23, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 18, 2018
Open Position for PhD Student in Coding at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for an open position to pursue a PhD in the area of polar coding.
May 16, 2018
Open Positions in Coding and DSP at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for permanent junior and senior research positions in the area of channel coding and modulation as well as digital signal processing for fibre-optical communications.
May 16, 2018
Information theory workshop at CNS*2018 -- call for contributed talks
Announcement of, and call for contributions to, the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience at CNS*2018, Seattle, USA, July 17-18, 2018.
May 16, 2018
Alexandros Dimakis wins the James L. Massey Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and a revered teacher and mentor to an entire generation of communications engineers. He was one of the outstanding researchers and leaders of the 51ÂÜÀò Information Theory Society over a period of 50 years.
May 15, 2018
Jingbo Liu wins Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 51ÂÜÀò Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, 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 including, but not limited to, Shannon theory, source and channel coding theory, data compression, learning theory, quantum information theory and computing, complexity theory, and applications of information theory in probability and statistics.
May 15, 2018
Videos from the celebration of George Boole
A joint project between University College Cork (UCC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was about understanding the impact of George Boole's ideas and Shannon's remarkable work on modeling switching using Boolean algebra.
May 15, 2018

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 51ÂÜÀò 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