Milestones:Milestones Status Report
REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL/DEDICATION PROCESS
Last updated: 7 March 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:
2013-20 CRC102-A Activation 1954 (Region 8, Italy Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:CRC102-A_activated_at_Politecnico_di_Milano_by_Luigi_Dadda
2014-01 Mother of All Demos (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:%22Mother_of_All_Demos%22 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:%22Mother_of_All_Demos%22
2014-02 Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938 (Region 8, Ukraine Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Zenit_three-coordinate_L-band_pulsed_radar,_1938
B. STATUS
B.1 PROPOSALS BEING WRITTEN ON THE GHN AND AWAITING SUBMISSION
2013-07 Cruft High Tension Laboratory [JCM] (Region 1, Boston Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Cruft_HighTension_Laboratory,_Harvard_School_of_Engineering_and_Applied_Science
2013-09 Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator [LF] (Region 1, Boston Section)
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Harvard_Mark_1_Computer,_1944_-_1959
2013-12 Bayer Color Filter Array [DBu] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Color_Filter_Array
2013-13 Erbium-Doped Fiber Optical Amplifier [MS] (Region 8, UKRI Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Development_of_the_Erbium-Doped_Optical_Fiber_Amplifier
2013-20 CRC102-A Activation 1954 (Region 8, Italy Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:CRC102-A_activated_at_Politecnico_di_Milano_by_Luigi_Dadda
2013-24 ASCII [TB] (Region 1, New Jersey Coast Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:ASCII_MIlestone_-_IEEE_NJ_Coast_Section
2013-27 Invention of Stereo [JImp] (Region 8, UKRI Section)
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Improvements_in_and_relating_to_Sound-transmission,_Sound-recording_and_Sound-reproduction_systems_by_Alan_Dower_Blumlein
2013-31 Weston Meter [EMat] (Region 1) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Weston_Meters
2014-01 Mother of All Demos (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:%22Mother_of_All_Demos%22 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:%22Mother_of_All_Demos%22
2014-02 Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938 (Region 8, Ukraine Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Zenit_three-coordinate_L-band_pulsed_radar,_1938
2014-03 TAT-8 Fiber Optic Cable, [TB](Region 2, New Jersey Coast Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Trans-Atlantic_Telephone_Fiber-optic_Submarine_Cable_(TAT-8)_-_1988
B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL
2013-15 Interactive Video Games [AM] (Region 1, New Hampshire Section) [Submitted date: 25 October 2013] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Interactive_Video_Games
2013-18 Vapor-phase Axial Deposition [DBu] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) [Submitted date: 19 June 2013] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Invention_and_development_of_vapor-phase_axial_deposition_(VAD)_method_for_mass_production_of_high-quality_optical_fiber_for_telecommunication
2013-19 Virginia Smith HVDC Converter [GC] (Region 5, Denver Section) [Submitted date: 10 February 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Virginia_Smith_HVDC_Converter_Station_with_Integrated_AC_Voltage_Control_Function
2013-29 Middle and Upper Atmosphere Radar [EM] (Region 10, Kansai Section) [Submitted date: 25 February 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_MU_%28Middle_and_Upper_atmosphere%29_radar%2C_1984
B.3. PROPOSALS APPROVED BY ADVOCATES AND AWAITING FINALIZED CITATIONS APPROVAL FROM PROPOSERS
B.4. PROPOSALS READY FOR HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION
2012-05 Bell Laboratories Inc., The First 60 Years [DM] (Region 1, North New Jersey Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories%2C_Inc.%2C_the_First_60_Years%2C_1925-1984
2013-03 First Breaking of Enigma Code by Polish Cipher Bureau [IE] (Region 8) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_First_Breaking_of_Enigma_Code_by_the_Team_of_Polish_Cipher_Bureau%2C_1932-39
2013-06 SPARC RISC Architecture [F-AH] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:SPARC_RISC_Architecture_Introduction,_1987
2013-16 First RISC Mircoprocessor [FA-H] (Region 6, Oakland East Bay Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_RISC_Microprocessor
2013-22 Introduction of Apple II Computer [EJ] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Introduction_of_the_Apple_II_Computer:_1977-1978
2013-25 TPC-1 Transpacific Cable [HK] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:TPC-1_System
2103-26 Hertz Generation of Electromagnetic Waves [MSch] (Region 8, Germany Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_generation_and_experimental_proof_of_electromagnetic_waves_1886-1888.
2013-28 Apple I Computer [EJ] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Introduction_of_the_Apple_I_Computer:_1976
2013-30 The Abacus [HKa] (Region 10, Beijing Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_Abacus
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 )
B.6. DEDICATIONS BEING PLANNED, ALL APPROVALS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED
2012-06 High Temperature Superconductivity [GC] (Region 5, Houston Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:High_Temperature_Superconductivity
2012-07 Line Spectrum Pair Technology for Speech Coding [MB] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Line_spectrum_pair_(LSP),_an_essential_technology_for_high-compression_speech_coding,_1975
2013-01 Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester [DB] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Gapless_Metal_Oxide_Surge_Arrester_(MOSA)_for_electric_power_systems,1975
2013-04 Sharp Thin-Film Transistor LCD [HK] (Region 10, Kansai Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Sharp_14-inch_thin-film-transistor_liquid-crystal_display_%28TFT-LCD%29_for_TV%2C_which_has_ushered_in_TFT_LCD_industry
2013-05 (Region 7, Vancouver Section) [DBar] First Digitally Processed SAR Image http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_Digitally_Processed_Image_from_a_Spaceborne_Synthetic_Aperture_Radar
2013-08 Birthplace of Silicon Valley [TB] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_Birthplace_of_Silicon_Valley
2013-10 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes [SMiz] (Region 10, Nagoya Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_20_inch_Diameter_Photomultiplier_Tubes
2013-11 Ampex Videorecorder [LL] (Region 6) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Ampex_Videotape_Recorder_-_1956
2013-14 Battery Industries in Japan, (Region 10, Kansai Section) 12 April 2014 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Birth_and_Growth_of_Primary_and_Secondary_Battery_Industries_in_Japan
2013-17 Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant Region 8, Germany Section, PES) 25 September 2014 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Rheinfelden_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant,_1898_-_2010
2013-21 First Blind Flight [MS] (Region 1, Long Island Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_Blind_Flight%3A_A_Joint_IEEE-AIAA_Milestone_Proposal
2013-23 PC Operating System 1974 (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) 25 April 2014 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:BIRTH_OF_THE_PC_OPERATING_SYSTEM_1974
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
