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Six ITSoc members have been elected to a three-year term on the BoG (Jan 1, 2014 to Dec. 31 2016).

Dr. James Emery Mazo Jr., a world-renowned information theorist, passed away on Sept. 27, 2013, at the age of 76, following a brief illness, at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J.

The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. This is the tenth year that the Prize has been awarded.

Ballots are open until October 1st.

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.

The 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing will be held from Monday August 18 to Friday August 22 in Bremen, Germany.

The College of Engineering at Notre Dame is launching a graduate fellowship in electrical engineering in Jim Massey’s name

Vladimir (Volodya) Balakirsky passed away August 5 at the age of 55. Volodya was a specialist in information theory with a strong mathematical and analytical background.

Three members of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society have received 2014 Technical Field Awards.

The 2013 annual Â鶹´«Ã½AV election key dates are Aug. 15-Oct. 1.

The Board of Governors has voted for the 2014 officers.

Pictures and slides of Plenaries from ISIT 2013 are available

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The 2013 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Paper Award winner has been announced at ISIT 2013 in Istanbul

The recipients of the 2013 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award have been announced at ISIT 2013, Istanbul Turkey

János Körner has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon award.

The finalists for the 2013 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award have been selected.

There will be a memorial at ISIT 2013 on July 8th at 6:30pm to honor James Massey.

James Lee Massey died on June 16, 2013 at his home in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The winner of the Chapter of the Year Award is the Swedish Joint Vehicular Technology, Communications, and Information Theory Chapter.