Newsletters
The IT Society Newsletter is published four times a year in Adobe PDF format. Articles specific to each issue are listed below. To contribute articles or offer suggestions, please contact the Newsletter Editor.
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June Issue 2013
- President Column. Historian Column. 2012 Shannon Lecture. Workshop and Coding and Crypto. Afternoon in Istanbul. Puzzle column.
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March 2013
- President’s Column. IT Society Members Win Prestigious Awards. The Historian’s Column. 2013 Newly Elevated Fellows. IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors Meeting Minutes. Golomb’s Puzzle Column and Solutions. In the Blogosphere.
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December 2012
- President’s Column; Memorial Tribute for Irving Stoy Reed and Donald W. Tufts; Facets of Entropy; Reports on Recent Activities of the IEEE IT Student Committee and the 12th IEEE European School of Information Theory; The Historian’s Column; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; In the Blogosphere. Call for Nominations/Papers/Conference Calendar
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September 2012
- Annual IT Awards Announced. Summary of 2011 Shannon Lecture. President's Column. IT BOG Minutes.
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June 2012
- President’s Column, Thomas M. Cover in Memoriam, The Historian’s Column, Algorithms, Combinatorics, Information, and Beyond (ISIT Plenary), A Report on the State of the Transactions, SRIF 2012 Report, Recent Activities of the IEEE IT Student Committee, Golomb’s Puzzle Column, Society Mentoring Network: Call for Participation, Conference Calendar
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March 2012
- IT Society Newsletter
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September 2011
- Annual IT Awards Announced; President’s and Historian’s Columns; IT Society Members Honored; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Board of Governors Meeting Minutes; Report on the 7th Asia-Europe Workshop on “Concepts in Information Theory”; Report on the Fourth Annual School of Information Theory; Conference Calendar
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June 2011
- Musing upon Information Theory (2010 Shannon lecture); President’s and Historian’s Columns; IT Society Member Honored; Report on 11th IEEE Winter School of Information Theory; In Memoriam: Igor Vajda; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Best Editorial Practices; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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March 2011
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; IT Society Members Win IEEE Medals and Awards; 2010 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows; In Memoriam: Tribute to Rudolf Ahlswede, Frederick Jelinek, Joseph Ovseyevich, Raymond J. Solomonoff; Teaching Lossless Data Compression; Can Structure Beat Random? – The Story of Lattice Codes; Abelian Varieties in Coding and Cryptography; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; ArXiv Postings Exceed 100/Month; Call for Nominations and Papers; Conference Calendar
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December 2010
- President's and Historian's Columns; IT Society Scholar One Website; IT Society Member Honored; Throughput and Capacity Regions; Coding for Noisy Networks; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Third WITHITS Annual Event; Recent Activities of the IT Student Committee; Report on the Third Annual School of Information Theory; Board of Governors Meeting; Workshop Report: Information Theory & Coding Workshop at Sharif University of Technology; Updates from the Online Committee
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September 2010
- Annual IT Awards Announced; President’s and Historian’s Columns; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Information Theory Society Board Governors Meeting; Event Report: Broadcast Channel Summit; First IEEE African Winter School on Information Theory and Communications; 2010 International Symposium on Network Coding; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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March 2010
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; 2010 new IEEE fellows and IEEE medal recipients; It’s Easier to Approximate (ISIT 09 plenary); Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Best Editorial Practices; workshop and meeting reports; Board of Governors meeting minutes; Call for Nominations; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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June 2010
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; IT Society Members Honored; Recent Activities of the IT Student Committee; Can Workshops Serve Us Better?; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Tribute to L. M. Fink; Workshop Report: Linear Programming and Message-Passing Approaches to High Density Parity-Check Codes and High-Density Graphical Models; 2010 North American School of Information Theory; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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December 2009
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; Call for nominations; Reflections on Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of the K User Interference Channel (IT Society award paper); Combinatorial Reasoning in Information Theory (ISIT plenary lecture);IT Society Members Honored; In Memoriam: Gerry Seguin; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Symposium and workshop reports; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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September 2009
- Optimal Estimation (2009 Shannon lecture); President’s and Historian’s Columns; In Memoriam: Wes Peterson; Award announcements; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Symposium and workshop reports; Tribute to Kotelnikov; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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June 2009
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; In Memoriam: Ralf Kötter; Awards; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Updates from the Outreach Committee and Student Committee; Updates on the Society's website project; Board of Governors meeting minutes; Winterschool Report; IT and wine; Letters; Call for Nominations; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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March 2009
- President’s and Historian’s Columns; Tributes to David Middleton and Robert Price; Awards and New IEEE Fellows; Some Reflections on Scholarly Reviewing; Symposium and Workshop Reports; Golomb’s Puzzle Column; Call for Nominations; Call for Papers; Conference Calendar
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September 2008
- Annual Awards; Historian's Column; Workshop and School Reports; Board of Governors' Meeting Minutes; NSF Report; Calls for Nominations
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June 2008
- President's and Historian's Columns; Golomb's Puzzle Column; Counting Primes Using Entropy; Students' Committee Report; Workshop Reports; NSF Report
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Past Newsletters
- Archive of past Newsletters.

