The scope of this symposium includes the following topics: Error Control Coding, Coding Theory and Practice, Coded Modulation, Data Compression and Source Coding, Communication Systems, Optical Communications, Detection and Estimation, Mobile Communications, Spread Spectrum Systems, Pattern Recognition and Learning, Signal Processing Speech/Image Coding, Rate‐Distortion Theory, Shannon Theory, Stochastic Processes, Cryptography and Data Security, Data Networks, Applications of Information Theory, Multi‐User Information Theory, and Quantum Information Processing.