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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 ����logo Information Theory Society over a period of 50 years.

The ����logo 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.

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.

Extended paper submission deadline for the 2018 ����logo Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou, China: June 1, 23:59 (Hawaii Time) http://www.itw2018.org/

A variety of PhD-student, Postdoc and 5-year Researcher Positions available.

The deadline for submissions for the 2018 ����logo Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou is rapidly approaching.

The deadline for submissions for the 2018 ����logo Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou is rapidly approaching.

PhD vacancies at Chalmers in mathematics for deep learning

The submission deadline is May 18, 2018.

There will be a Summer School in 2018 on "Number theory and coding theory - contemporary applications in security." at Åbo Akademi, Turku.

The extended paper submission deadline is April 13. ISITA2018 will be held in Singapore for October 28–31. For more details http://www.isita2018.org/

ITSOC Member Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh has won the prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The deadline has been extended to April 11, 2018.

March 2018 ITSOC Newsletter Available Online

A conference celebrating Imre Csiszár's 80th birthday will be held this summer in Budapest.

Seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief for the ����logo Transactions on Wireless Communications. The Current EiC will step down in December 2018. Nominations are due April 23, 2018.

Suggestions for invited talks for "Beyond i.i.d. 2018" are solicited from the community, to be submitted by March 31, 2018. The workshop will be held in Cambridge, UK from July 23 to July 27, 2018.

Paper submission deadline is extended for ISITA 2018 in Singapore from Oct. 28 to Oct. 31. The submission deadline is April 13. Details are at http://www.isita2018.org/

The following statement reaffirms the Society's commitment to the ����logo Code of Conduct, ����logo Code of Ethics, and ����logo Nondiscrimination Policy.

Each year, the Allerton Conference draws some of the brightest minds from industry, academia and government to discuss innovation in the fields of communication, control and computing. Papers are due July 9, 2018