Publications of the IEEE Information Theory Society

The mission of our society is to support the open exchange of ideas in information theory. I am excited to write this inaugural President's column for the IEEE Information Theory Society's new BITS magazine. The concept of a magazine has been discussed in our society for many years, going back at least to 2015. It took the intense effort of the Editor-in-Chief, Robert Calderbank, the Steering Committee, currently chaired by Christina Fragouli, and the inaugural editorial board, to finally bring this vision to fruition. They have put in an incredible amount of thoughts on making this magazine both technically superb and a beautiful piece of art. I wish to express my sincere gratitude for their energy, vision, and leadership, and also thank the authors for contributing their wondeful articles. The fruit of their effort will greatly benefit our society and be appreciated by all of our members.