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Committees

PeopleList Awards Committee
The Awards Committee is responsible for submitting a recommendation to the Board for the Information Theory Society Paper Award. It also supplies members (jointly with the Communications Society) to a subcommittee that selects the recipient of the Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Prize Paper Award. The Committee is also responsible for selecting the recipient(s) of the Student Paper Award and for submitting nominations, on behalf of the Society, for various major IEEE (and, as appropriate, non-IEEE) awards. The members of the Awards Committee are provided by the Nominations and Appointments Committee.
PeopleList Conference Committee
The Conference Committee makes recommendations to the Board regarding Society sponsorship of proposed technical meetings, monitors the pipeline of technical meeting proposals, stimulates new proposals, coordinates organizing teams as needed, and maintains guidelines for workshops and symposia.
PeopleList Constitution and Bylaws Committee
The Constitution and Bylaws Committee is charged with preparing suitable revisions to keep the Constitution and Bylaws up to date.
PeopleList Fellows Committee
The Fellows Committee is responsible for providing the IEEE Fellow Committee with the Society evaluation of nominations to Fellow grade.
PeopleList Membership and Chapters Committee
The Membership and Chapters Committee is responsible for maintaining up do date membership records, a roster of Chapter officers, and a summary of current Chapter activity. The Committee recommends measures for disseminating information about the Society and for encouraging interest in Society activities among prospective members. It responds to membership inquiries and periodically ascertains the opinions of the membership with regard to group policies and activities.
PeopleList Nominations and Appointments Committee
The Nominations and Appointments Committee nominates and appoints chairs and additional members of the committees as outlined in the Bylaws.
PeopleList Publications Committee
Membership consists of the Society President, Vice Presidents, Newsletter Editor, Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions, the Publications Editors and all Associate Editors for the Transactions.
PeopleList Online Committee
The Online Content leads the Society's web efforts by working with web technologies and developers to deliver the latest features to the Society websites.
PeopleList Outreach Committee
The task of the committee is, broadly speaking, to provide events and services that address needs and encourage participation of our underrepresented demographics, while being of interest and use to the community at large.
PeopleList Student Committee
The Student Committee coordinates and organizes activities for students.
PeopleList Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee
The Committee is charged with deciding whether to name a Claude E. Shannon Award winner for the following year, and to select a winner. The President of the Society shall serve as Chairperson of the Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee. Ordinarily, the decision of the Committee shall be made public at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory of the year preceding the award.
PeopleList Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee
The Committee is charged with deciding whether to name a Wyner Distinguished Service Award winner for the actual year, and to select a winner. The President of the Society shall serve as Chairperson of the Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee. Ordinarily, the decision of the Committee shall be made public at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory of the year of the award.
PeopleList External Nominations Committee
The external nominations committee is responsible for soliciting, processing and submitting nominations for IEEE and non-IEEE awards, e.g., IEEE Medals, Technical Field Awards, Paper Awards.