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


'''Last updated: 30 April 2019'''  
'''Last updated: 23 June 2019'''  


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.   
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.   
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|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Plaque payment commitment received?
|'''Plaque payment commitment received?
|-
|2018-13
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Fiber_optic_connectors  Fiber Optic Connectors with Push-Pull]
|ADVOCATE NEEDED
|Region 10
|Tokyo Section
|30 November 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2019-03
| [http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:1972_-_Rainer_Weiss%27s_Invention_of_the_Gravitational_Wave_Antenna_Used_in_the_Large_Interferometric_Gravitational_Observatory_(LIGO) Gravitational Wave Antenna, 1972]
|ADVOCATE NEEDED
|Region 5
|Baton Rouge/Richland
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|2019-04
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Folsom_Powerhouse,_1895  Folsom Powerhouse, 1895]
|ADVOCATE NEEDED
|Region 6
|Sacramento Section
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|Region 1
|Region 1
|Providence Section
|Providence Section
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|2018-05
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:GiovanniGiorgi International System of Units]
|MPo
|Region 8
|Italy Section
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|yes
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|2018-10
|2019-02
|Xerox Alto Computer
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Neutrodyne_Circuit,_1922 Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922]
|JHui
|DBar
|Region 6
|Region 1
|Santa Clara Valley Section
|North Jersey Section
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|2019-02
|2019-04
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Neutrodyne_Circuit,_1922 Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Folsom_Powerhouse,_1895 Folsom Powerhouse, 1895]
|DBar
|ADVOCATE NEEDED
|Region 1
|Region 6
|North Jersey Section
|Sacramento Section
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=== B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL ===
=== B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE DECISION ===


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|2017-11
|2017-11
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Walter_Guyton_Cady  Piezoelectric Resonator and Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Walter_Guyton_Cady  Piezoelectric Resonator and Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923]
|CSch
|JaH
|Region 1
|Region 1
|Connecticut Section
|Connecticut Section
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|UKRI Section
|UKRI Section
|3 September 2018
|3 September 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2018-05
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:GiovanniGiorgi International System of Units]
|MPo
|Region 8
|Italy Section
|23 May 2019
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
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|Italy Section
|Italy Section
|11 January 2019
|11 January 2019
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2018-10
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Xerox_Alto  Xerox Alto Computer]
|JHui
|Region 6
|Santa Clara Valley Section
|4 June 2019
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
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|2018-13
|2018-13
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Fiber_optic_connectors  Fiber Optic Connectors with Push-Pull]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Fiber_optic_connectors  Fiber Optic Connectors with Push-Pull]
|HKa
|ADVOCATE NEEDED
|Region 10
|Region 10
|Tokyo Section
|Tokyo Section
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|2016-06
|2016-06
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Chirp_Sonar_Subbottom_Profiler  Chirp Sonar Subbottom Profiler]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Chirp_Sonar_Subbottom_Profiler  Chirp Sonar Subbottom Profiler]
|GCo
|JaH
|Region 1
|Region 1
|Providence Section
|Providence Section
|9 September 2016
|9 September 2016
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2017-16
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:AFIS_NEC  First Operational Large-scale Fingerprint Identification System, 1982]
|JVrd
|Region 10
|Tokyo Section
|11 January 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
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|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
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|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Payment commitment received?'''
|'''Payment commitment received?'''
|-
|2017-16
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:AFIS_NEC  First Operational Large-scale Fingerprint Identification System, 1982]
|JVrd
|Region 10
|Tokyo Section
|11 January 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|}
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|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Site owner permission letter received?
|'''Payment commitment received?'''
|'''Payment commitment received?'''
|-
| 2015-01
| [http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Invention_and_First_Demonstration_of_Radar Demonstration of Predecessor of Radar 1904]
| TaSar
| 8
| Germany Section
|13 July 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2017-10
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Self-regulating_Trace_Heater Invention of the Conductive Polymer Self-Regulation Heater – 1972]
|AMar
|Region 6
|Santa Clara Section
|26 April 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2017-14
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:High_Electron_Mobility_Transistor,_HEMT,_1979  High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979]
|JMaz
|Region 10
|Tokyo Section
|21-Nov-17
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2018-07
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Standardisation_of_the_OHM Standardisation of the Ohm as an Electrical Unit]
|ASav
|Region 8
|UKRI
|12 June 2018
|yes
|yes
|yes
|-
|2019-01
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Role_of_the_Parkes_Radiotelescope_in_the_First_Moon_Landing Parkes Radiotelescope, 1969]
|DBur
|Region 10
|New South Wales Section
|15 February 2019
|yes
|yes
|yes
|}
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| 7  
| 7  
| Ottawa Section  
| Ottawa Section  
|9 September 2019
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| 2015-01
| [http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Invention_and_First_Demonstration_of_Radar Demonstration of Predecessor of Radar 1904]
| TaSar
| 8
| Germany Section
|TBD
|TBD
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|-
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|8
|8
|Benelux
|Benelux
|TBD
|29 October 2019
|-
|2016-02
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Detection_of_Radar_Signals_Reflected_From_the_Moon,_1946  Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon, 1946]
|APY
|1
|New Jersey Coast
|17 May 2019
|-
|-
|2017-01
|2017-01
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|19 August 2019
|19 August 2019
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|-
|2017-15
|2017-10
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:SCR/Thyristor SCR/Thyristor]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Self-regulating_Trace_Heater Invention of the Conductive Polymer Self-Regulation Heater – 1972]
|JCMi
|AMar
|Region 1
|Region 6
|Rochester Section/PELS
|Santa Clara Section
|14 June 2019
|28 August 2019
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|-
|2018-01
|2017-14
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:The_DIALOG_Online_Search_System,_1966-1970 DIALOG Online Search System, 1966-1970]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:High_Electron_Mobility_Transistor,_HEMT,_1979  High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979]
|JaH
|JMaz
|Region 6
|Region 10
|Santa Clara Valley Section
|Tokyo Section
|23 May 2019
|TBD
|-
|-
|2018-03
|2018-07
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Salva%27s_Electric_Telegraph,_1804 Salva's Electric Telegraph, 1804]
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Standardisation_of_the_OHM Standardisation of the Ohm as an Electrical Unit]
|JnVdl
|ASav
|Region 8
|Region 8
|Spain Section
|UKRI
|17 May 2019
|17 September 2019
|-
|-
|2018-08
|2018-08
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|Santa Clara Valley/ Southern California Council
|Santa Clara Valley/ Southern California Council
|1 August 2019
|1 August 2019
|-
|2019-01
|[http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Role_of_the_Parkes_Radiotelescope_in_the_First_Moon_Landing Parkes Radiotelescope, 1969]
|DBur
|Region 10
|New South Wales Section
|August 2019
|}
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Revision as of 13:03, 24 June 2019


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

Last updated: 23 June 2019

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. 

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


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

Interested in proposing a milestone? Any IEEE member can submit a milestone proposal. Here is a list of important achievements suitable for proposal, and which we encourage a proposer to consult the Milestones Guidelines and submit. This list is not exclusive; if you know of other achievements you wish to submit, you are welcome to do so.

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A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING MILESTONES:

Docket Number Short Name Advocate initials Region Sponsoring Org Unit Submitted/Completed Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Plaque payment commitment received?
2018-13 Fiber Optic Connectors with Push-Pull ADVOCATE NEEDED Region 10 Tokyo Section 30 November 2018 yes yes yes
2019-03 Gravitational Wave Antenna, 1972 ADVOCATE NEEDED Region 5 Baton Rouge/Richland
2019-04 Folsom Powerhouse, 1895 ADVOCATE NEEDED Region 6 Sacramento Section

Advocates must be either current or past IEEE History Commmittee members. 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 AND AWAITING SUBMISSION

Docket Number Short Name Advocate initials Region Sponsoring Org Unit Submitted Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Plaque payment commitment received?
2014-04 Langevin Sonar, 1917 LF 8 France Section
2014-08 Hollow dielectric beam waveguide, 1966 AMa 8 Ukraine Section
2015-07 Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator JSor 7 Toronto yes yes yes
2015-14 Alexanderson alternator and multituned antenna, Grimeton JCM 8 Sweden
2016-01 Disconnectable Cable Terminating Device, 1905 JCM 5 Chicago
2017-03 Kodak Digital Camera, 1973-1977 JMaz 2 IEEE Rochester Section
2017-04 Printing Telegraph, 1856-1859 ElBru 3 IEEE Kentucky Section
2017-05 Space Shuttle Training and Simulator Software, 1976 JVar Region 5 TBD
2017-06 Stubblefield Broadcast, 1902 DvBa Region 3 TBD
2017-09 Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant, 1984 ETej Region 9 Paraguay Section
2017-12 Apollo Unified S-Band Communications Systems DMic Region 6 Scottsdale Arizona Section
2017-13 Global Positioning System, 1973 AMcr Region 6 IEEE Coastal Los Angeles
2018-02 Ocean exploration technologies JVrd Region 1 Providence Section
2018-09 ALOHANET DMi*n Region 6 Hawaii Section yes
2019-02 Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922 DBar Region 1 North Jersey Section
2019-04 Folsom Powerhouse, 1895 ADVOCATE NEEDED Region 6 Sacramento Section

B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE DECISION

Docket Number Short Name Advocate initials Region Sponsoring Org Unit Submitted/Completed Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Payment commitment received?
2015-03 BASIC Programming Language, 1964 ElJoh Region 1 New Hampshire 22 August 2018 yes yes yes
2017-08 Budapest Metro, 1896 MHa Region 8 Hungary Section 10 December 2017 yes yes yes
2017-11 Piezoelectric Resonator and Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923 JaH Region 1 Connecticut Section 6 February 2019 yes yes yes
2018-04 Active Shielding of Superconducting Magnets JMaz Region 8 UKRI Section 3 September 2018 yes yes yes
2018-05 International System of Units MPo Region 8 Italy Section 23 May 2019 yes yes yes
2018-06 Ferraris Early Induction Motor JCMi Region 8 Italy Section 11 January 2019 yes yes yes
2018-10 Xerox Alto Computer JHui Region 6 Santa Clara Valley Section 4 June 2019 yes yes yes
2018-12 Brain-controlled Robot, 1988 MBns Region 8 Macedonia Section 17 November 2018 yes yes yes
2018-13 Fiber Optic Connectors with Push-Pull ADVOCATE NEEDED Region 10 Tokyo Section 30 November 2018 yes yes yes
2018-14 μPD7720 Signal Processing Chip IsSh Region 10 Tokyo Section 18 December 2018 yes yes yes
2018-15 RCA Radio Central DBar Region 1 Long Island Section 6 February 2019 yes yes yes

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

Once the proposers have agreed to the wording, the proposals will be submitted to the History Committee for action

Docket Number Short Name Advocate initials Region Sponsoring Org Unit Submitted/Completed Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Payment commitment received?
2016-06 Chirp Sonar Subbottom Profiler JaH Region 1 Providence Section 9 September 2016 yes yes yes
2018-11 String Galvanometer for Human Electrocardiogram, 1901-1905 JVrd Region 8 Benelux Section 17 November 2018 yes yes yes

B.4. PROPOSALS AWAITING HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION

The proposals are expected to be acted upon at the next History Committee meeting or teleconference, which is 9-10 March 2019.

Docket Number Short Name Advocate initials Region Sponsoring Org Unit Submitted/Completed Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Payment commitment received?
2017-16 First Operational Large-scale Fingerprint Identification System, 1982 JVrd Region 10 Tokyo Section 11 January 2018 yes yes yes

B.5.1.. 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/Completed Date Section support letter received? Site owner permission letter received? Payment commitment received?


C. DEDICATIONS BEING PLANNED, ALL APPROVALS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED

Docket Number Short Name Region Sponsoring Org Unit Dedication Date
2013-09 Harvard Mark I Computer, 1944-1959 1 Boston Section TBD
2013-22 Introduction of Apple II Computer EJ 6 Santa Clara Valley Section TBD
2013-28 Introduction of Apple I Computer EJo 6 Santa Clara Valley Section TBD
2014-06 Macintosh Computer, 1984 JImp & DMi 6 Santa Clara Valley Section TBD
2014-12 Rescue/Life Saving Enabled by Space Tech, 1982 DKmp 7 Ottawa Section 9 September 2019
2015-01 Demonstration of Predecessor of Radar 1904 TaSar 8 Germany Section TBD
2015-13 Birth of WiFi, 1988 MBa 8 Benelux 29 October 2019
2017-01 Czochralski Process, 1916 KKul Region 8 Poland Section and Germany Section TBD
2017-02 Discovery of Superconductivity at 93 Kelvin DBu Region 3 IEEE Huntsville Section 19 August 2019
2017-10 Invention of the Conductive Polymer Self-Regulation Heater – 1972 AMar Region 6 Santa Clara Section 28 August 2019
2017-14 High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979 JMaz Region 10 Tokyo Section TBD
2018-07 Standardisation of the Ohm as an Electrical Unit ASav Region 8 UKRI 17 September 2019
2018-08 Lunar Ranging Experiment LURE DBar Region 6 Santa Clara Valley/ Southern California Council 1 August 2019
2019-01 Parkes Radiotelescope, 1969 DBur Region 10 New South Wales Section August 2019

D. 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


                                                         D. OTHER MILESTONES ACTIVITY

Return to Milestone Program Guidelines
Proposals in progress as well as completed proposals can be viewed here NOTE: This is a staff workspace.