1. Brought to you by the Women in Information Theory Society
Quiz: Know Your Stats
Brought to you by the
Women in Information Theory Society

2. ITSOC: Know your Shannon Awardees
At least two women have received the Shannon Award. True/False?
False
1 (Katalin Marton 2013)

3. ITSOC: Know your Fellows
At least one woman was elected an IEEE Fellow by the ITSOC by True or False?
False

4. ITSOC: Know your Fellows
There are at least 6 female ITSOC-nominated fellows since True or False?
True 8
~3 ITSOC nominated fellows/year

5. ITSOC: ITSOC Paper Awards
At least 2 women have received the ITSOC Paper Award. True/False?
False
125 male awardees

6. ITSOC: Com/IT-SOC Paper Awards
Only 1 paper with female authors has received the joint ComSoc/ITSOC Paper Awards. True/False?
False
3 over 17 years
5 women out of 64 total authors

7. ITSOC: Student Paper Awards
Of the 82 total awardees of student best paper awards, five are female. True or False?
False
3 out of 82 awardees (< 4%)

8. ITSOC: Presidents True
The ITSOC has had presidents since The first female ITSOC president (Goldsmith) took office in True or False?
True

9. https://www.itsoc.org/people/bog/boghistory/past- presidents
ITSOC: Presidents
Since 2008, we have had 4 female ITSOC Presidents (including 2018). True/False?
False
3 (Effros, Medard, Erkip)
Total of 5 (Soljanin) in 2019
presidents

10. ITSOC: EiCs
Since ITSOC’s inception in 1955, there have been 5 female EiCs. True or False?
False

11. ITSOC: Know your AEs False 2 female AEs out of 29
Associate Editors are the primary IT Transactions gatekeepers. There were 4 women AEs by 2004? True/False?
False
2 female AEs out of 29
First appointed in 1997
Second in 2001

12. There are 8 female AEs at present. True/False?
ITSOC: Know Your AEs
There are 8 female AEs at present. True/False?
False
9/48 = 19%

13. ITSOC: Know your Board of Governors
The Board of Governors plays a crucial role in managing the Society. There are at least 5 women of the 27 officers in the current ITSOC BoG. True/False?
False – 7
2004: 4 women
2002 : 0

14. ITSOC: Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturer Program enables talks by prominent IT researchers. Since its inception in 2010, 10 women (of 40) have been DLs. True/False?
False
9 out of 40
: 2/10
lecturers

15. (Muriel, Andrea, Michelle, Ubli, Olgica, Sennur,?)
ITSOC: ISIT TPC Chairs
TPC Chairs are the key members enabling the technical program at ISITs. Over the 40+ years of ISIT, 10 women have been ISIT TPC Chairs. True/False?
False
< 7
(Muriel, Andrea, Michelle, Ubli, Olgica, Sennur,?)

16. ITSOC: ISIT TPC Members
The TPC chairs cannot function without the TPC members (~100/year). ISIT 2017 TPC had 20% female representation. True/False?
False
2017: 19/119 (16%)
2018: 20/154 (13%)

17. ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers
Plenary talks at ISIT make for amazing conferences. There was 1 female ISIT plenary speaker before True or False?
False

18. ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers
By 2004, there were only two female ISIT plenary speakers. True/False?
True 2
Daubechies (1995), Goldwasser (2002)
conferences/past-isit-speakers

19. ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers
Since 2004, there have been at least 10 female ISIT plenary speakers. True/False?
False. 7
Daubechies (2014, 1995)
conferences/past-isit-speakers

20. ITSOC: ISIT Tutorial Presenters
ISIT Tutorials are extremely popular. Overall, at least 15 tutorial presenters have been female. True/False?
False
< 10
2018: 1
2017: 3

21. ITSOC: North American IT School (NASIT)
NASITs have enabled tremendous student learning and participation including via the Padovani lectureship. There has been at least two female Padovani lecturers since True or False?
False 1
(Emina Soljanin)

22. Much to do
“And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court], and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.” – Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 2018

23. WITHITS: New Chairs Needed
Come talk to us 