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"Information Theory In Small Bits" now available for purchase
The book, written by ITSOC members Christina Fragouli and Anna Scaglione, and illustrated by Scaglione, is aimed at making ideas from information theory accessible to children.
Jul 24, 2018
Â鶹´«Ã½AV Launches App for Android/iOS
Download the new app from Google Play or the ITunes store.
Jul 24, 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher Position at Imperial College London
A post-doctoral research associate position is available in the Information Processing and Communications Lab within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Imperial College London. This position is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for project BEACON, which focuses on designing novel communication techniques for wireless networks under extreme energy and delay constraints. This particular position will target employing modern machine learning tools to meet these extreme communication requirements.
Jul 1, 2018
PhD Scholarship in Coding Theory at Monash University
A PhD position in coding theory for distributed storage systems is available at Monash University
Jun 28, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internet of Things Security, Communications, Inference and Learning; Lehigh and Princeton Universities
Postdoc at Lehigh/Princeton desired to make strong theoretical contributions to bounds and achievable approaches for security, communications, inference, or learning for Internet of Things systems using information theoretic, statistical, or mathematical tools.
Jun 25, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internet of Things Security, Communications, Inference and Learning; Lehigh and Princeton Universities
Postdoc at Lehigh/Princeton desired to make strong theoretical contributions to bounds and achievable approaches for security, communications, inference, or learning for Internet of Things systems using information theoretic, statistical, or mathematical tools.
Jun 16, 2018
PhD position in error correction coding and shaping for optical communication
The Coding group at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark has an open PhD position within the topic of information theory and error correction coding and shaping for optical communication. This project is part of collaboration between DTU Fotonik and the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) within the EuroTech Alliance.
May 30, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 23, 2018
Recent Results Session at ISIT
Recent Results Session at ISIT 2018 in Vail, Colorado
May 18, 2018
Open Position for PhD Student in Coding at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for an open position to pursue a PhD in the area of polar coding.
May 16, 2018
Open Positions in Coding and DSP at Huawei Paris
The Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of the Huawei Paris Research Centre is seeking strong candidates for permanent junior and senior research positions in the area of channel coding and modulation as well as digital signal processing for fibre-optical communications.
May 16, 2018
Information theory workshop at CNS*2018 -- call for contributed talks
Announcement of, and call for contributions to, the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience at CNS*2018, Seattle, USA, July 17-18, 2018.
May 16, 2018
Alexandros Dimakis wins the James L. Massey Award
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 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society over a period of 50 years.
May 15, 2018
Jingbo Liu wins Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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.
May 15, 2018
Videos from the celebration of George Boole
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.
May 15, 2018
ITW 2018 Guangzhou: Deadline Extension
Extended paper submission deadline for the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou, China: June 1, 23:59 (Hawaii Time) http://www.itw2018.org/
May 15, 2018
Open Positions at EURECOM in Communications, covering Caching, Distributed computing and Machine Learning
A variety of PhD-student, Postdoc and 5-year Researcher Positions available.
May 3, 2018
May 18 Submission Deadline for Information Theory Workshop 2018
The deadline for submissions for the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou is rapidly approaching.
May 3, 2018

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