Summary: IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter September 1999
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WORKSHOP REPORT
The Sixth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
Kingston, Ontario
June 15 ­ June 18, 1999
The Sixth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory was
held June 15­18, 1999, at The Holiday Inn in Kingston, On­
tario. Theworkshopwas sponsored by the Canadian Society
for Information Theory, with generous financial support
from Communications and Information Technology On­
tario, Communications Research Center, the Department of
Electrical andComputerEngineering and the Departmentof
Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, the
Kingston Chapter of the IEEE and Nortel Networks.
The Canadian Society for Information Theory was formed in
1983, following a very successful IEEE International Sympo­
sium on Information Theory held in St. Jovite. The purpose
of the Society is to promote research in Information Theory
in Canada, and this workshop (which is held biannually) is

Source: Alajaji, Fady - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University (Kingston)

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