IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

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Cities that have hosted ISIT. Larger dots are used when the city hosted the symposium several times.

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". ^[1] 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. ^[2]

Conferences

History of the ISIT conference
Year	City	Country	Date
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

References

1. "Conference on Information Theory, London 1950". turing.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
2. "Previous ISITs — Information Theory Society". itsoc.org. Retrieved 2018-04-13.