Milestones Status Report
REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL/DEDICATION PROCESS
Last updated: 26 April 2017
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 here
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 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 Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Plaque payment commitment received? |
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 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 | ||||
| 2015-01 | Invention of Radar 1904 | TaSar | 8 | Germany Section | ||||
| 2015-03 | BASIC Computer Language | EJo | 1 | New Hampshire | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 2016-02 | Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon, 1946 | APY | 1 | North Jersey Coast | ||||
| 2016-10 | Pacinotti Ring Armature, 1863 | JCMi | Region 8 | Italy Section | yes | yes | yes |
B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL
| Docket Number | Short Name | Advocate initials | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Submitted Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Payment commitment received? |
| 2015-13 | Birth of WiFi, 1988 | MBa | 8 | Benelux | 30 October 2016 | yes | yes | yes |
| 2016-07 | Amorphous Silicon TFT Switches, 1979 | JCM | Region 8 | UKRI Section | 22 February 2017 | yes | yes | yes |
| 2017-01 | Czolchralski Process, 1916 | KKul | Region 8 | Poland Section and Germany Section | 16 March 2017 | yes | yes | yes |
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 | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Payment commitment received? |
| 2016-06 | Chirp Sonar Subbottom Profiler | GCo | Region 1 | Providence Section | 9 September 2016 | yes | yes | yes |
| 2016-13 | First Magnetic Resonance Image | JaH | Region 1 | Long Island Section | 26 January 2017 | yes | yes | yes |
B.4. PROPOSALS READY FOR HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION
| Docket Number | Short Name | Advocate initials | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Submitted Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Payment commitment received? |
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 Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Payment commitment received? |
| 2016-08 | Fermilab Tevatron, 1983 | ASav | Region 4 | Superconductivity Council | 1 August 2016 | yes | yes | yes |
| 2016-09 | Object-oriented programming | AMa | Region 8 | Norway Section | 16 January 2017 | yes | yes | yes |
| 2016-11 | CDMA for Cellular Communications, 1989 | DBar | Region 6 | San Diego Section | 25 October 2016 | yes | yes | yes |
B.6. DEDICATIONS BEING PLANNED, ALL APPROVALS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED
| Docket Number | Short Name | Region | Sponsoring Org Unit | Dedication Date | |
| 2013-08 | The Birthplace of Silicon Valley | TB | 6 | Santa Clara Valley Section | Late 2017 |
| 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 |
| 2014-02 | Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938 | MSch | 8 | Ukraine Section | 31 May 2017 |
| 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 | TBD |
| 2015-04 | Outdoor Large-Scale Color Display 1980 | AMg | 10 | Fukuoka | TBD |
| 2015-05 | Gotland HVDC Link, 1954 | EBru | 8 | Sweden | 15 May 2017 |
| 2015-06 | Nobeyama 45-m Telescope | DBu | 10 | Tokyo | 14 June 2017 |
| 2015-08 | Exploration and Proof of Liquid Crystals, 1889 | APYu | 8 | Germany | TBD |
| 2015-11 | Moore's Law, 1965 | DaBar | 6 | Santa Clara Valley | Late 2017 |
| 2015-12 | French Transatlantic Cable, 1869-1898 | PIsr | 1 | Providence | July 2017 (France) and Sept 2018 (Massachusetts) |
| 2016-05 | First Atomic Clock, 1948 | TBi | Region 2 | Washington DC Section | TBD |
| 2016-12 | Self-Complimentary in Antennas and Mushiake Relationship, 1948 | DaMic | Region 10 | Sendai Section | 27 July 2017 |
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
D. OTHER MILESTONES ACTIVITY
