
Special Workshop for Young Researchers will take place previous to the 34rd Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 29, November, 2011
Venue: Hotel Mori No Kaze Ohshuku, Iwate Pref.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, SITA, and IEICE
The program of the workshop is available from here.
The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society. The following papers won the 2011 Information Theory Paper Award:
M. Hayashi, "Information-Spectrum Approach to Second-Order Coding Rate in Channel Coding", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 4947-4966, Nov. 2009.
Y. Polyanskiy , H.V. Poor , S. Verdu , "Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 2307-2359, May. 2010.
The winners of ISITA2010/ISSSTA2010 Travel Support Award for Young Researchers were pronounced at the banquet of the conference. The following promising young researchers won the award:
Dr. Yusuke KOZAWA (Ibaraki Univ.),
Dr. Shinsuke NAGATA (Shizuoka Univ.),
Dr. Gou HOSOYA (Waseda Univ.),
Dr. Masanori HIROTOMO (Kobe Univ.).


IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter supports AEW2010 (Oct.22-Oct.24,2010) to be held in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan.
The workshop focuses on fundamental concepts in Information Theory.
July 2, 2009, Seoul - Te Sun Han received the Claude Elwood Shannon
Award 2010 of the IEEE Information Theory Society. The prize is
designated after Calude Elwood Shannon and awarded for outstanding
achievements in the area of the information theory. The Claude Elwood
Shannon Award is the highest honor of the IT Society. We heartily
congratulate Te Sun Han to win the prize and feel greatly honored to
announce his award to all of you.
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