President's Column
Broadly, our Information Theory Society is about our people, the ideas those people generate, and the impact those people and their ideas have: people, ideas, impact. I thought then I might dedicate this initial column to talking about our members, and some of the key ways the Society supports their ideas and their impact — through publications and events. I want to give some sense of statistics, some sense of recent accomplishments, and I want to indicate some initiatives that members might find interesting to get involved in.Â
Awards
Congratulations to the members of our community that have recently received prestigious awards and honors.

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

Urbashi Mitra

James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars

Flavio P Calmon

Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Pavel Panteleev
Gleb Kalachev

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Irit Dinur
Shai Evra
Ron Livne
Alexander Lubotzky
Shahar Mozes

Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Sharang Sriramu
Aaron B. Wagner

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Chin Wa (Ken) Lau
Chandra Nair

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Guodong Li
Ningning Wang
Sihuang Hu
Min Ye
Articles
Recent Newsletter Issues
Upcoming Conferences & Workshops
| Conference Date | Deadline | Description |
|---|---|---|
February 16 - February 19
Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
2026 ÌÇÐÄlogo Australian Information Theory School (AusITS) | |
March 24 - March 27
The Cliff Lodge Convention Center, 9320 Cliff Lodge Dr, Snowbird, UT 84092 |
October 11 |
TCS: DCC2026 - Data Compression Conference |
May 18
Tokyo, Japan |
December 29 |
ÌÇÐÄlogo INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI): Call for Papers |
June 2
Bangalore, India |
February 13 |
International Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning within ACM ASIA CCS |
June 7 - June 10
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
March 2 |
Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) 2026 |
June 28 - July 3
Guangzhou, China |
January 16 |
2026 ÌÇÐÄlogo International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) |
November 10 - November 13
Tempe, Arizona, USA |
May 1 |
2026 ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop (ITW) |
Call to Action
| Deadline | Description |
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January 16 |
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February 15 |
