President's Message
The mission of our society is to support the open exchange of ideas in information theory.
I am excited to write this inaugural President’s column for the Â鶹´«Ă˝AV Information Theory Society’s new BITS magazine. The concept of a magazine has been discussed in our society for many years, going back at least to 2015. It took the intense effort of [...]
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