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The Second International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom 2018) will be held from June 6-8, 2018 in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Due to server stability issues in the last few days, nominations for the Shannon and Wyner awards through the website may have been disrupted.

The following statement reaffirms the Society's commitment to the �鶹��ýAV Code of Conduct, �鶹��ýAV Code of Ethics, and �鶹��ýAV Nondiscrimination Policy.

The ITSOC Online Committee has posted videos from some past Schools of Information Theory for streaming

The workshop consists of invited talks in the area of optical communications and a poster session and will be held from April 8-10, 2018.

ISTC 2018 will be in Hong Kong in December and is seeking submissions due in June 2018.

Introducing women in information theory: learn about the triumphs, challenges, and secrets of a few women in information theory through these video interviews.

Proposals for tutorials at the 2018 �鶹��ýAV Information Theory Workshop in Guangzhou, China are solicited. Deadline: March 1, 2018.

The postdoc is at the IID center at Duke.

A PhD scholarship is available at Monash University, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, in the area of coding theory for distributed storage systems.

Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300) invites submissions to the special issue "Entropy and Information Inequalities". The deadline for submission is June 29, 2018.

The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in the areas of statistical learning, big data, and related topics. Strong candidates in other areas are encouraged to apply as well.

December 2017 ITSOC Newsletter Available Online

The �鶹��ýAV Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing will publish an Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing. Manuscripts are now due December 8, 2017.

The �鶹��ýAV Alexander Graham Bell Medal was established in 1976 by the �鶹��ýAV Board of Directors, in commemoration of the centennial of the telephone's invention, to provide recognition for outstanding contributions to telecommunications. The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 was a major event in electrotechnology. It was instrumental in stimulating the broad telecommunications industry that has dramatically improved life throughout the world. As an individual, Bell himself exemplified the contributions that scientists and engineers have made to the betterment of mankind.