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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News: 2013 North American School of Information Theory - Deadline extended to May 15 May 07, 2013; Please endorse the Shannon Centenary US Stamp Proposal Apr 30, 2013; Dan Costello named recipient of the 2013 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Apr 02, 2013; Hisashi Kobayashi receives a 2012 Computer and Communications Prize. Mar 25, 2013; CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Full-duplex Wireless Communications and Networks Mar 20, 2013; View All

cs.IT updates on arXiv.org: Sparse Adaptive Dirichlet-Multinomial-like Processes. (arXiv:1305.3671v1 [cs.IT]); Coverage and Throughput Analysis with a Non-Uniform Femtocell Deployment. (arXiv:1305.3694v1 [cs.IT]); Cut-Set Bounds on Network Information Flow. (arXiv:1305.3706v1 [cs.IT]); Coding with Encoding Uncertainty. (arXiv:1305.3733v1 [cs.IT]); On dually flat $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics. (arXiv:1305.3767v1 [math.DG]); More…