Milestones:Milestones Status Report

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

Last updated: 20 November 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

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

To see how many Milestones have been dedicated in each Region and Section, see List of Dedicated Milestones by Region

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A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING MILESTONES:

Docket Number

Short Name

Advocate initials

Region

Sponsoring Org Unit

Submitted Date

IEEE History Commmittee members, as well as Corresponding Members of the History Committee, are encouraged to serve as advocates for milestone proposals. To volunteer to serve as an advocate, contact the IEEE History Staff milestone administrator at ieee-history@ieee.org

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
2013-12	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
2014-6	Macintosh Computer, 1984	JImp & DMi	6	Santa Clara Valley Section
2014-08	Hollow dielectric beam waveguide, 1966	AMa	8	Ukraine Section
2014-10	Automotive Navigation System, 1981	MPol	10	Tokyo Section
2014-12	Rescue/Life Saving Enabled by Space Tech, 1982	DKmp	7	Ottawa Section

B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2014-07	Fermi Semiconductor Statistics, 1926	FA-H	8	Italy Section	24 July 2014
2014-09	Koenigs Wusterhausen Radio Transmission, 1920	ASav	8	Germany Section	7 September 2014
2014-11	High Definition TV, 1964	XL	10	Tokyo Section	11 November 2014
2014-13	Emergency Warning Code Signal Broadcasting	SV	10	Tokyo Section	11 November 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
2013-09	Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator	LF	1	Boston Section	25 March 2014
2014-05	Special Citation for Computer History Museum	JImp	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	16 June 2014

B.4. PROPOSALS READY FOR HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION

Docket Number

Short Name

Advocate initials

Region

Sponsoring Org Unit

Submitted Date

B.5.1.. PROPOSALS APPROVED BY HISTORY COMMITTEE AND BEING PREPARED FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AGENDA

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
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
2014-02	Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938	MSch	8	Ukraine Section	10 April 2014
2014-03	TAT-8 Fiber Optic Cable	TB	2	New Jersey Coast Section	3 April 2014

B.5.2 PROPOSALS APPROVED BY HISTORY COMMITTEE BEING ACTED UPON AT UPCOMING BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING OR TELECONFERENCE

(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	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

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.,	DMi	1	North New Jersey Section	18 December 2014
2013-06	SPARC RISC Architecture	F-AH	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	13 February 2015
2013-08	Birthplace of Silicon Valley	TB	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD
2013-11	Ampex Videorecorder	LL	6		TBD
2013-16	First RISC Microprocessor	F-AH	6	Oakland East Bay Section	12 February 2015
2013-22	Introduction of Apple II Computer	EJ	6	Santa Clara Valley Section	TBD
2103-26	Hertz Generation of Electromagnetic Waves	MSch	8	Germany Section	5 December 2014
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

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