The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) is the flagship meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Every year and during the course of a week, researchers in the field of information theory gather to share their work in a series of presentations. The main event of the symposium is the Shannon Lecture, which is given by the recipient of the prestigious Claude E. Shannon Award of the year; the year's awardee was revealed during the previous ISIT.
History The first meeting took place in 1950, although back then it was only called "Information Theory". Claude Shannon was a major participant; he had published his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication only two years before this meeting.
The symposium was held sporadically in the beginning and it has become a yearly event only after the turn of the millennium.
Conferences History of the ISIT conference Year City Country Date 2027 Sorrento Italy June 27 - July 2 2026 Guangzhou China June 28 – July 3 2025 Ann Arbor United States of America June 22–27 2024 Athens Greece July 7–12 2023 Taipei Taiwan 25–30 June 2022 Espoo Finland 26 June - 1 July 2021 Melbourne Australia 12–20 July 2020 Los Angeles United States of America 21–26 June 2019 Paris France 7–12 July
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