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Tribute to Vera Pless, who passed away on March 2, 2020. Prof. W. Cary Huffman writes about Vera's life, scientific career and her significant, original, and lasting contributions to the study of error correcting codes and information theory.

Society President Aylin Yener describes important changes and updates to the 2020 activities of the �鶹��ýAV Information Theory Society due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Vera Stepen Pless has passed away on Monday March 2, 2020, just before her 89th birthday.

The deadline to propose tutorials at ISIT 2020 is fast approaching! Please consider and encourage contributing a proposal: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Tutorials.asp

Call for nominations for the first Editor-in-Chief of �鶹��ýAV BITS the Information Theory Magazine.

Entropy invites submissions to the special issue “The Interplay Between Storage, Computing, and Communications from An Information-Theoretic Perspective”. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 October 2020.

The 2020 European School of Information Theory will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 24 to May 29, 2020. Registration is now open and early-bird rates are in place until March 26, 2020.

Check out our new video on recommender systems. The video describes key insights behind content and collaborative filtering (matrix factorization) and how Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and others predict what you will like.

The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Network Neuroscience, beginning Fall 2020.

2020 �鶹��ýAV International Workshop on Privacy and Security for Information Systems (WPS) Paper Submission Deadline is extended to Friday, April 10 (AoE - 11:59pm).

JSAIT has had a successful kickoff with three issues in the works. The issues on deep learning and quantum information science are now in process, and the third issue on statistical estimation and inference is now accepting submissions. JSAIT welcomes ideas for future special issues.

JSAIT's third issue will focus on statistical estimation and inference. Papers are due May 1, 2020 and expected publication is November/December 2020.

Robert G. Gallager will be awarded the 2020 Japan Prize for his contributions to information theory, including the development of error-correcting codes that are used in 5G systems.

Tribute to Piet Schalkwijk, who passed away on January 30, 2020. Han Vinck writes about Pieter's scientific career and his contributions to coding and information theory.

Entropy Special Issue on "Information Flow in Neural Systems" articles on both artificial and natural neural networks are welcome

There are vacancies for two PhD positions at the Information Theory and Applications Chair (Prof. Rafael Schaefer) at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany. The positions are initially limited to two years with a possible extension. The positions are part of the projects "Post Shannon Communication," funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and "Machine Learning for Physical Layer Security" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).