President's Column
Broadly, our Information Theory Society is about our people, the ideas those people generate, and the impact those people and their ideas have: people, ideas, impact. I thought then I might dedicate this initial column to talking about our members, and some of the key ways the Society supports their ideas and their impact — through publications and events. I want to give some sense of statistics, some sense of recent accomplishments, and I want to indicate some initiatives that members might find interesting to get involved in.Â
Awards
Congratulations to the members of our community that have recently received prestigious awards and honors.

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

Urbashi Mitra

James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars

Flavio P Calmon

Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Pavel Panteleev
Gleb Kalachev

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Irit Dinur
Shai Evra
Ron Livne
Alexander Lubotzky
Shahar Mozes

Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Sharang Sriramu
Aaron B. Wagner

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Chin Wa (Ken) Lau
Chandra Nair

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Guodong Li
Ningning Wang
Sihuang Hu
Min Ye