Milestones:Milestones Status Report

REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL/DEDICATION PROCESS

Last updated: 21 July 2014

This ongoing report shows the status of Milestones in the various stages of the process, updated continually by IEEE History Center staff. Milestones are listed with their docket numbers. The IEEE Region and the sponsoring organizational unit are shown in parentheses. Please note the titles given here are shortened or working titles, not the full or official titles. While in the approval process, proposals have a History Committee advocate assigned to them, whose initials are given in brackets. Proposals in progress can be viewed on the IEEE Global History Network at: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=104   

To see a count of how many IEEE Milestones have been dedicated, click List of Milestones by Dedication Year ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING MILESTONES:

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2014-6	Macintosh Computer, 1984		6	Santa Clara Valley Section

B. STATUS

B.1 PROPOSALS BEING WRITTEN ON THE GHN AND AWAITING SUBMISSION

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-09	Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator	LF	1	Boston Section
2013-12	Bayer Color Filter Array	DBu
2013-13	Erbium-Doped Fiber Optical Amplifier	MS	8	UKRI Section
2013-20	CRC102-A Activation 1954	F-AH	8	Italy Section
2013-31	Weston Meter	EMat	1	North New Jersey Section
2014-01	Mother of All Demos	EJ	6	Santa Clara Valley Section
2014-04	Langevin Sonar, 1917	LF	8	France Section
2014-05	Special Citation for Computer History Museum	JImp	6	Santa Clara Valley Section
2014-6	Macintosh Computer, 1984		6	Santa Clara Valley Section

B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-07	Cruft High Tension Laboratory	JCM	1	Boston Section	28 March 2014
2013-19	Virginia Smith HVDC Converter	GC	5	Denver Section	10 February 2014
2013-27	Stereo Sound Recording	JImp	8	UKRI Section	14 July 2014

B.3. PROPOSALS APPROVED BY ADVOCATES AND AWAITING FINALIZED CITATIONS APPROVAL FROM PROPOSERS

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2014-02	Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938	MSch	8	Ukraine Section	10 April 2014

B.4. PROPOSALS READY FOR HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-15	Interactive Video Games	AM	1	New Hampshire Section	25 October 2013
2013-18	Vapor-phase Axial Deposition	DBu	10	Tokyo Section	19 June 2013
2013-24	ASCII	TB	1	New Jersey Coast Section	3 April 2014
2013-29	Middle and Upper Atmosphere Radar	EO	10	Kansai Section	25 February 2014
2014-03	TAT-8 Fiber Optic Cable	TB	2	New Jersey Coast Section	3 April 2014

B.5.1 PROPOSALS APPROVED BY HISTORY COMMITTEE READY FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACTION

(The schedule for upcoming Board of Directors meetings can be found in the right hand column of  http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/board/index.html or at Upcoming Series )  

Docket Number

Short Name

Advocate initials

Region

Sponsoring Org Unit

B.6. DEDICATIONS BEING PLANNED, ALL APPROVALS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED

Docket Number	Short Name		Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Dedication Date
2012-05	Bell Laboratories Inc., The First 60 Years	DMi	1	North New Jersey Section	TBD
2012-06	High Temperature Superconductivity	GCo	5	Houston Section	17 November 2014
2013-01	Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester		10	Tokyo Section	18 August 2014
2013-03	First Breaking of Enigma Code by Polish Cipher Bureau	IE	8	Poland Section	5 August 2014
2013-06	SPARC RISC Architecture	F-AH	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD
2013-08	Birthplace of Silicon Valley	TB	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD
2013-10	20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes	SMiz	10	Nagoya Section	5 November 2014
2013-11	Ampex Videorecorder	LL	6		TBD
2013-16	First RISC Microprocessor	F-AH	6	Oakland East Bay Section	TBD
2013-17	Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant		8	Germany Section/Power Eng. Soc.	25 September 2014
2013-21	First Blind Flight		1	Long Island Section	24 September 2014
2013-22	Introduction of Apple II Computer	EJ	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD
2013-25	TPC-1 Transpacific Cable	HK	10	Tokyo Section	TBD
2103-26	Hertz Generation of Electromagnetic Waves	MSch	8	Germany Section	TBD
2013-28	Introduction of Apple I Computer	EJo	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD

B.7 DEDICATIONS HELD

 For a list by dedication date of all IEEE Milestones dedicated from the beginning of the Milestone Program, see List of Milestones by Dedication Year

For a list of dedicated Milestones in chronological order by date of achievement, see Chronological List of Milestones

For a list of dedicated Milestones by Region, see List of Dedicated Milestones by Region

                                           C. POTENTIAL MILESTONES BEING RESEARCHED OR EXPLORED

                                                                  (that History Center staff are aware of)

High performance Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, 1977

Cellular radio

First All-Electronic Television Broadcasts (BBC)

London to Adelaide telegraph line 

Charles Kao optical fiber (R8 UKRI Section)

John Logie Baird television (R8 UKRI Section)

Harrisons clock (R8 UKRI Section)

Photovoltaic effect (R8 – France)  

RCA Victor (R2 Philadelphia Section)

386 Micro (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section)

4004 Micro (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section)

Canadian Niagara Plant (Region 7)

Oberlin-Smith electromagnetic recording (Region 2, South Jersey Section) (possible ASME codesignation?)

                                                         D. OTHER MILESTONES ACTIVITY

Return to Milestone Program Guidelines