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IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter Vol. 66, No. 3, September 2016 Editor: Michael Langberg ISSN 1059-2362 Editorial committee: Frank Kschischang, Giuseppe Caire, Meir Feder, Tracey Ho, Joerg Kliewer, Anand Sarwate, Andy Singer, Sergio Verdú, and Parham Noorzad President’s Column Alon Orlitsky ISIT in Barcelona was true joy. Like a Gaudi sion for our community along with extensive masterpiece, it was artfully planned and flaw- experience as board member, associate editor, lessly executed. Five captivating plenaries and a first-class researcher. Be-earlied con- covered the gamut from communication and gratulations, Madam President. coding to graphs and satisfiability, while Al- exander Holevo’s Shannon Lecture reviewed Other decisions and announcements con- the fascinating development of quantum cerned the society’s major awards, including channels from his early theoretical contribu- three Jack Wolf student paper awards and the tions to today’s near-practical innovations. James Massey Young Scholars Award that The remaining 620 talks were presented in 9 went to Andrea Montanari. Surprisingly, the parallel sessions and, extrapolating from those IT Paper Award was given to two papers, I attended, were all superb. Two records were “The Capacity Region of the Two-Receiver broken, with 888 participants this was the Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channel With Pri- largest ISIT outside the US, and at 540 Euro vate and Common Messages” by Yanlin Geng registration, the most economical in a decade. and Chandra Nair, and “Fundamental Limits of Caching” by Mohammad Maddah-Ali and Apropos records, and with the recent Rio Games, isn’t ISIT Urs Niesen. While Paper Awards were given to two related like the Olympics, except even better? As with the ultimate papers recently, not since 1972 were papers on different top- sports event, we convene to show our best results, further our ics jointly awarded. But the board found both papers excel- reach, and meet old friends. But beyond the Summer Games, lent yet so different in topic and focus that choosing between we don’t just compete – we collaborate, we don’t merely cele- them would have been arbitrary. brate – we cerebrate, and instead of quadrenially – we see our friends and colleagues yearly. I would therefore like to con- Two career awards were also given. The Aaron D. Wyner gratulate and thank the IT Olympics general chairs, Albert Distinguished Service Award went to Frank Kschischang. Guillen y Fabregas, Alfonso Martinez, and Sergio Verdu, and Frank has performed essentially all our major service tasks, technical chairs, Venkat Anantharam, Ioannis Kontoyiannis, including associate editor (3 years), editor in chief (3), ISIT Yossef Steinberg, and Pascal Vontobel, for an excellent event. general and technical chair (1+1), board of governors (3), and And if you concur, please let them know too. president (5). A grand total of 16 years at the society’s service. Frank once told me that his parents immigrated to Canada so As Barcelona ends, we pass the torch to Aachen 2017, and Vail they could do four times less work for the same pay. Thank- and Paris in 2018 and 2019. At our annual Board of Gover- fully, when it came to our society, Frank espoused the oppo- nors meeting in Barcelona we added two more ISIT Olympic site philosophy: infinitely more work, for no pay. Cities: Los Angeles 2020 and Melbourne 2021. In fact, to per- manently cement the pecking order, ISITs are now scheduled Finally and importantly, the 2017 Shannon Award, our soci- further into the future than the Summer Olympics! ety’s most prestigious distinction, went to David Tse. Like the award’s eponym, David distills practical challenges into el- Another important sequence, the presidential succession line, egant mathematical problems that he solves to obtain impor- was augmented by Emina Sojanin, our next Second VP, suc- tant fundamental insights on the original problem. Applying ceeding Elza Erkip and Ruediger Urbanke. Emina embodies a unique fusion of passion for our profession and compas- continued on page 35 2 From the Editor Michael Langberg Dear colleagues, index-coding and coded-caching. Many thanks to the con- tributors for their efforts! As fall settles in, we are glad to present the September issue of our society news- The issue continues with a number of our regular columns letter. The issue opens by joining our So- including Tony Ephremides’s Historian’s column; our “Stu- ciety President Alon Orlitsky in congrat- dents’ Corner’’ column presenting two student articles, ulating our fellow colleagues for their by Onur Günlü and Jennifer Tang (compiled by Parham outstanding research accomplishments Noorzad), summarizing their experiences at recent Shannon and service recognized by our commu- Centenary events; the column “From the field’’ highlighting nity. We are then delighted to include an the recent activities of the recipient of this year’s Chapter of article by Richard Brown, the NSF Pro- the Year Award, the Benelux Chapter on Information Theory; gram Director in the Communication and the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors Information Foundations (CIF) cluster meeting minutes from their meeting in ITA (La Jolla California) in January; and reports in the Division of Computing and Com- from the Munich Workshop on Causal Inference and Information Theory (MCI 2016), the munication Foundations (CCF), which Bertinoro Workshop on Communications and Coding (BCC 2016), two major events in outlines NSF’s continued commitment South Africa (the IEEE Seminar on Future Directions in Information Theory and Com- to fundamental research through several munications and the 2nd African Winter School on Information Theory and Communica- concrete programs of interest to the soci- tions), the International Conference on Information Geometry and its Applications IV, the ety. Following the efforts in our commu- 2016 European School of Information Theory, and the 2016 International Zurich Seminar nity to reach out and influence societies on Communications. beyond on own, we are glad to have an intriguing article by Eimear Byrne ‘‘Sub- The festivity of the Shannon Centenary has been felt throughout our community over the spaces, Matrices and Codes’’ which out- past months. This issue includes a collection of reports from several of the workshops, exhib- lines recent results and open problems in its, and celebrations that took place world-wide. The collection includes reports from: Bell the context of subspace and rank-metric Labs, New Jersey; MIT; Paderborn, Germany; Hefei, China; IIT Madras, Information Theory codes alongside explicit connections to Society Madras Chapter; Monash University; Chinese University and City University of continued on page 16 IEEE Information Theory Table of Contents Society Newsletter President’s Column ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 1 From the Editor ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 2 IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter Awards . 3 (USPS 360-350) is published quarterly by the Guest Column: News from the National Science Foundation . .4 Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Subspaces, Matrices and Codes . .5 The Historian’s Column . 13 Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997. Students’ Corner ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 14 From the Field: 2016 Chapter of the Year Award for the Benelux IT Chapter . 15 Cost is $1.00 per member per year (included in Society fee) for each member of the Report on the Munich Workshop on Causal Inference and Information Information Theory Society. Printed in the Theory (MCI 2016) ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 17 U.S.A. Periodicals postage paid at New York, Report on the Bertinoro Workshop on Communications and Coding NY and at additional mailing offices. 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For Golomb’s Puzzle Columntm: Latin Squares Solutions ��������������������������������������������������� 36 more information, visit http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/ whatis/policies/p9-26.html. In Memoriam: Professor Rudolf Emil Kalman . .37 In Memoriam: Solomon W. Golomb . 38 Golomb’s Puzzle Columntm, Part 1 . .41 Call for Papers ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 51 Conference Calendar �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������56
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