IEEE Information Theory Society
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The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITS), formerly the IEEE Information Theory Group, is a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

 (IEEE) focused on several aspects of information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...

: its processing
Information processing
Information processing is the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens in the universe, from the falling of a rock to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system...

, transmission, storage, and usage; and the "foundations of the communication process".

History

The foundation of the society was made in 1951 when the IRE Professional Group on Information Theory came together for the first time. This professional group was part of the Institute of Radio Engineers
Institute of Radio Engineers
The Institute of Radio Engineers was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until January 1, 1963, when it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .-Founding:Following several attempts to form a...

 (IRE). With the merge of the IRE into the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

 (IEEE) in 1963, the name was changed into IEEE Professional Technical Group on Information Theory, but one year later simplyfied into IEEE Information Theory Group. The final name IEEE Information Theory Society was taken in 1989.

Publications

IEEE ITS publishes the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers...

and the IEEE ITS Newsletter.

Conferences

IEEE ITS sponsors widely-attended conferences and workshops internationally each year.

External links

IEEE Information Theory Society
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