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The winner of the Chapter of the Year Award is the Swedish Joint Vehicular Technology, Communications, and Information Theory Chapter.

The 2013 ÌÇÐÄlogo Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Awards have been awarded.

The ITSoc Student Committee is organizing a video competition.

Robert Calderbank (ÌÇÐÄlogo Fellow) has been awarded the 2013 ÌÇÐÄlogo Richard W. Hamming medal for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.

The deadline for the 2013 North American School of Information Theory has been extended to May 15

We are making a proposal to the United States Postal Service for the production of a stamp honoring Claude Elwood Shannon on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Dan Costello will receive the 2013 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award at ISIT 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.

We invite original submissions to this special issue. The full CPF is found at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/Full-duplexCFP.pdf

This news item describes the upcoming event at ITA

A career and mentorship panel will be held at ITA for students and postdocs. Lunch will be provided to all participants.

The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the ÌÇÐÄlogo IT Paper Award and the ÌÇÐÄlogo Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.

A PhD scholarship is now available in the field of information theory at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. This position is aimed to providing a unified framework for the study of finite-length information theory.

The video of the 2012 Shannon Lecture video by Prof. Abbas El Gamal is now available online.

The University of Newcastle, Australia, is offering a full 3-year PhD scholarship in network information theory. The scholarship includes tuition fees, health cover, and a living allowance of AUD 24,653 per annum.

The following ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2013 to Dec. 31 2015).

You are invited to attend the Communication Sciences Institute's 30th Anniversary Conference and Celebration at USC. The conference will feature panels, technical talks by alumni and friends, a poster session for all attendees, memorials to Irving Reed and Robert Gagliardi, a historical retrospective and social events. More information can be found at http://csi.usc.edu/csi30/

We invite original contributions for ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAC special issue on Communication Methodologies for the Next-Generation Storage Systems

Media resources for ISIT 2012 are now available at http://media.itsoc.org/isit2012