Milestones:Milestones Status Report
REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL/DEDICATION PROCESS
Last updated: 3 April 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 |
2013-20 | CRC102-A Activation 1954 | 8 | Italy Section | ||
2014-01 | Mother of All Demos | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | ||
2014-02 | Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938 | 8 | Ukraine Section |
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 | 8 | Italy Section | ||
2013-27 | [1] | JImp | 8 | UKRI Section | |
2013-31 | Weston Meter | EMat | 1 | ||
2014-01 | Mother of All Demos | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | ||
2014-02 | Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938 | 8 | Ukraine Section |
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 |
2013-07 | Cruft High Tension Laboratory | JCM | 1 | Boston Section | 28 March 2014 |
2013-18 | Vapor-phase Axial Deposition | DBu | 10 | Tokyo Section | 19 June 2013 |
2013-19 | Virginia Smith HVDC Converter | GC | 5 | Denver Section | 10 February 2014 |
2013-29 | Middle and Upper Atmosphere Radar | EM | 10 | Kansai Section | 25 February 2014 |
Docket Number | Short Name | Advocate initials | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Submitted Date |
2013-24 | ASCII | TB | 1 | New Jersey Coast Section | 3 April 2014 |
2013-30 | The Abacus | HKa | 10 | Beijing Section | 4 December 2013 |
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 | Submitted Date |
2013-15 | Interactive Video Games | AM | 1 | New Hampshire Section | 25 October 2013 |
Docket Number | Short Name | Advocate initials | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Submitted Date |
2012-05 | Bell Laboratories Inc., The First 60 Years | DMi | 1 | North New Jersey Section | |
2013-03 | First Breaking of Enigma Code by Polish Cipher Bureau | IE | 8 | Poland Section | |
2013-06 | SPARC RISC Architecture | F-AH | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | |
2013-16 | First RISC Mircoprocessor | F-AH | 6 | Oakland East Bay Section | |
2013-22 | Introduction of Apple II Computer | EJ | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | |
2013-25 | TPC-1 Transpacific Cable | HK | 10 | Tokyo Section | |
2103-26 | Hertz Generation of Electromagnetic Waves | MSch | 8 | Germany Section | |
2013-28 | Apple I Computer | EJo | 6 | Santa Clara Valley |
2013-17 Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant Region 8, Germany Section, PES) [Dedication: 25 September 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Rheinfelden_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant,_1898_-_2010
2013-21 First Blind Flight [Dedication ceremony: 24 September 2014] (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) [Dedication: 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 Return to Milestone Program Guidelines
Docket Number | Short Name | Advocate initials | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Dedication Date |
2012-06 | High Temperature Superconductivity | GCo | 5 | Houston Section | |
2012-07 | Line Spectrum Pair Technology for Speech Coding | 10 | Tokyo Section | 22 May 2014 | |
2013-01 | Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester | 10 | Tokyo Section | 18 August 2014 | |
2013-04 | Sharp Thin-Film Transistor LCD | 10 | Kansai Section | 10 June 2014 | |
2013-05 | First Digitally Processed SAR Image | 7 | Vancouver Section | 19 April 2014 | |
2013-08 | Birthplace of Silicon Valley | TB | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | TBD |
2013-10 | 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes | SMiz | 10 | Nagoya Section | TBD |
2013-11 | Ampex Videorecorder | LL | 6 | TBD |