Category: Milestones
The year 2019 will be the 50th anniversary of humans landing on the moon, one of the great engineering achievements of all time. Because many technologies within IEEE’s fields of interest were crucial to this event, IEEE is eager to celebrate this heritage. Particularly, IEEE would like to highlight this [...]
IEEE Region 6 Recently Approved Milestones Two new IEEE Historic Milestones were approved recently by the IEEE History Committee: DIALOG Search Engine and the Apollo 11 Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. Sincere congratulations to proposer and IEEE Region 6 Milestone Coordinator Brian Berg. More milestones? If you have an idea for [...]
November 7, 2017 - IEEE Milestone ceremony celebrating the Development of CDMA for Cellular Communications by Qualcomm hosted by the IEEE San Diego Section. On 7 November 1989, Qualcomm publicly demonstrated a digital cellular radio system based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) spread spectrum technology, which increased capacity, improved [...]
IEEE Silicon Valley Technology History committee co-chair Tom Coughlin attended the dedication of an IEEE Milestone in Hawaii for the first Transpacific Cable System (TPC-1) in 1964. The plaque reads: IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing The First Transpacific Cable System (TPC-1), 1964 The first transpacific undersea coaxial telephone [...]
The Santa Clara Valley Section will host an IEEE Milestone dedication on Monday, August 20 at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. The Milestone is titled "The Floating Gate EEPROM, 1976-1978" . Technology developed by Eli Harari in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for the subsequent development [...]
