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Five-Page Limit on Correspondences As recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Growth of the Transactions, and unanimously approved by the Board of Governors at ISIT 2006 in Seattle, WA, accepted Correspondence items submitted for review in 2007 and beyond will be limited in length to five printed pages in the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý Transactions on Information Theory. The updated Information for Authors now reflects this change.

On an experimental basis, open reviewing of submissions to the Transactions will be allowed to complement the standard procedure.

ArXiv is a public preprint server (partly funded by the NSF) which in the past decade has become the dominant method for distributing new papers in the physics community, and more recently in substantial parts of math and CS. It has been called the "physics model" for "open access" publication. Recently ArXiv has established an information theory category.

Prof. Sergio Verdú, of Princeton University, has been named the recipient of the 2008 ½­ÄÏÌåÓý Richard W. Hamming Medal, "for fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection".

The Awards Committee, currently chaired by Andrea Goldsmith, strongly encourages all society members to consider nominating papers for the ITSoc or joint ITSoc/COMSOC prize paper awards. To stimulate more award nominations, the deadline has been extended to March 1.