IEEE HISTORY COMMITTEE UPDATE – JUNE 2012
A communication tool for History Committee members, corresponding members, and associated staff –
BOSTON MILESTONES
IEEE will be dedicating three Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing in Boston on 27 June. The Milestones commemorate the Loran System, the Whirlwind Computer, and the SAGE defense system. The ceremony is free and open to IEEE members and non-members. For more information and to register to attend, please go to:
MILESTONE STATUS REPORT
invite you to check the report often; it is updated frequently.) Please use this opportunity to review the milestones in the nomination stages (B.3, B.4, B.5) and make your comments early in the review process by using the blue “Discussion” tab.
HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION ITEMS GRID
Check on this URL to find out what tasks have been completed:
(If you have completed a task, please email o that staff can update the grid)
HISTORY CENTER IMPACT AND INFLUENCE
History Center Senior Staff Director Michael Geselowitz was interviewed on BBC-5 radio’s program “Up All Night” on 23 May on the life, work and impact of Eugene Polley, who invented the first wireless television remote control. The broadcast can be heard at: your pointer to 1:38 to get to that part of the program.)
The June 2010 history column on "The Making of Football's Yellow First-and-Ten Line" by the History Center’s Outreach Historian John Vardalas for IEEE’s Today’s Engineer received more than 50,000 visitors in May. It was picked up on Hacker News and seems to have enjoyed a bit of viral success as well.
Global History Network translation into Creole: science.webhostinggeeks.com/ieee-wiki-ht – The IEEE Global History Network expands its international presence and its value as an educational tool with a translation into Creole of its article on Heinrich Hertz. The History Center gave translation permission to a project which produces access to educational resources and important scientific material in different languages.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UPDATE
Have you participated in an IEEE-related history activity you would like to let the committee know about? Added or updated a page on the IEEE Global History Network? Given a history presentation at a Society, Region, Chapter, or Council meeting? Given a paper at a conference or published in a historical journal?
If so, we invite you to send a one or two sentence notice to , and we will gladly include your activity or information item in the next update (see below for deadlines).
Deadline for items: 5th of each month (or next business day)
Update will be sent on the 10th of each month (or next business day) except for months in which there is a meeting or teleconference of the IEEE History Committee.
Robert D. Colburn, Research Coordinator
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