The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), one of the major conferences in the information theory community, was founded in 1990 and has since been held every two years:
- 1990 - Honolulu, USA
- 1992 - Singapore
- 1994 - Sydney, Australia
- 1996 - Victoria, Canada
- 1998 - Mexico City, Mexico
- 2000 - Honolulu, USA
- 2002 - Xian, China
- 2004 - Parma, Italy
- 2006 - Seoul, Korea
- 2008 - Auckland, New Zealand
- 2010 - Taichung, Taiwan
- 2012 - Honolulu, USA
- 2014 - Melbourne, Australia
- 2016 - Monterey, California, USA