The annual administrative meeting of this year is substituted by e-mail discussion. E-mail will be sent to the members by IEEE eNotice.
An IEEE promotion desk will open at the 46th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (SITA2023) from 11/28 to 12/1, 2023 at Yuda Onsen (Kamefuku On-Place), Yamaguchi, Japan. For more information, please visit to the local reception desk during the syumposium.
The annual administrative meeting of this year is substituted by e-mail discussion. E-mail will be sent to the members.
Shan Lu (Gifu University)
The award ceremony was held in the award ceremony of ISITA2022 on October 19, 2022.
The annual administrative meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Japan Chapter (ITJC) took place as the co-located event with the 44th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (SITA2021). The details of the meeting are as follows.
Date: December 8, 2021
Time: 18:00
Venue: Kwansei Gakuin Kaikan, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo.
The annual administrative meeting of this year is substituted by e-mail discussion. E-mail will be sent to the members.
Hikaru Tsuchida (Univ. Tsukuba / NEC)
The award ceremony was held online in ISITA2020 on October 27, 2020.
The Japan Chapter awarded the 2019 IEEE Information Theory Society Chapter of The Year Award at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris France.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 42nd Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications(SITA2019). The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 26, November, 2019
Venue: Kirishima Kokusai Hotel, Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE Technical Committee on IT, and SITA2019
The program of the workshop is available from here.
The annual administrative meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Japan Chapter (ITJC) took place as the co-located event with the 42nd Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (SITA2019). The details of the meeting are as follows.
Date: November 28, 2019
Time: 17:00
Venue: Kirishima Kokusai Hotel, Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima.
Tetsunao Matsuta (Tokyo Institute of Tech.)
Satoshi Takabe (Nagoya Instiute of Tech.)
Yohei Watanabe (NICT)
The award ceremony was held in the banquet of ISITA2018 on October 30, 2018.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 41st Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications(SITA2018). The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 18, November, 2018
Venue: Venue: Spa Resort Hawaiians, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE Technical Committee on IT, and SITA2018
The program of the workshop is available from here.
Date: 20, November, 2018
Time: 17:00
Venue: Spa Resort Hawaiians, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 40th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications(SITA2017). The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 28, November, 2017
Venue: Senkei Shiratama no Yu, Tsukioka Onsen, Shibata, Niigata.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE Technical Committee on IT, and SITA2017
The program of the workshop is available from here.
Date: 30, November, 2017
Time: 17:00
Venue: Senkei Shiratama no Yu, Tsukioka Onsen, Shibata, Niigata.
The 2017 activities report for this meeting is available from here(Dec. 4 2017, revised).
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 39th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications(SITA2016). The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 13, December, 2016
Venue: Takayama Green Hotel, Takayama, Gifu.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE, and SITA2016
The program of the workshop is available from here.
IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter honors excellent papers that are authored by young researchers and presented in ISITA2016. We are pleased to announce that the award was presented to;
Yuta Sakai (University of Fukui)
Shota Saito (Waseda University)
Junya Honda (The University of Tokyo)
The award ceremony was held in the banquet of ISITA 2016 on November 1, 2016.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers will take place prior to the 38th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 24, November, 2015
Venue: Shimoden Hotel, Kurashiki, Okayama.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE, and SITA2015
The program of the workshop is available from here.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 37th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 9, December, 2014
Venue: Unazuki New Otani Hotel, Kurobe, Toyama.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE, and SITA2014
The program of the workshop is available from here.
IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter honors excellent papers that are authored by young researchers and presented in ISITA2014. We are pleased to announce that the award was presented to;
Dr. Takayuki Nozaki (Kanagawa Univ.)
Dr. Ricardo Antonio Parrao Hernandez (JAIST)
Dr. Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn (NII)
The award ceremony was held in the banquet of ISITA 2014.
(photo courtesy of ISITA 2014 organizing commiitee)
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 36th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 26, November, 2013
Venue: Ito Hotel Juraku, Ito, Shizuoka.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE, and SITA2013
The program of the workshop is available from here.
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior to the 35th Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. The details of the workshop are as follows.
Date: 11, December, 2012
Venue: Beppu-wan Royal Hotel, Oita Pref.
Co-sponsors: IEEE IT Soc. Japan Chapter, IEICE, and SITA2012
The program of the workshop is available from here.
We are pleased to announce that the following promising young researchers are the winners of ISITA2012 Travel Support Award for Young Researchers:
Mr. Shoichiro Matsumoto (Chiba Institute of Tech.)
Mr. Ikuya Murakami (Tokyo Univ. of Science)
Special Workshop for Young Researchers took place prior 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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