Milestones Status Report
REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL/DEDICATION PROCESS
Last updated: 22 December 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 as well as completed proposals 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 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 Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Plaque payment commitment received? | |
2017-06 | Stubblefield Broadcast, 1902 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 3 | TBD | |||||
2017-10 | Self-Regulating Trace Heater, 1971 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 6 | Santa Clara Section | |||||
2017-11 | Weslyan Labs Innovations, 1902-1951 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 1 | Connecticut Section | yes | yes | |||
2017-14 | High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 10 | Tokyo Section | |||||
2017-15 | SCR/Thyristor | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region ?? | Section ?? | |||||
2017-16 | First Operational Large-scale Fingerprint Identification System, 1982 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 10 | Tokyo Section |
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 | ||||
2017-02 | Discovery of Superconductivity at 93 Kelvin | DBu | Region 3 | IEEE Huntsville Section | yes | yes | yes | |
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 | ||||
2017-08 | Budapest Metro, 1896 | MHa | Region 8 | Hungary Section | yes | yes | yes | |
2017-09 | Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant, 1984 | ETej | Region 9 | Paraguay Section | ||||
2017-12 | Apollo Unified S-Band Transponder | DMic | Region 6 | Scottsdale Arizona Section | ||||
2017-13 | Global Positioning System, 1973 | AMcr | Region 6 | IEEE Coastal Los Angeles | ||||
2017-14 | High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 10 | Tokyo Section |
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 |
2017-01 | Czochralski Process, 1916 | KKul | Region 8 | Poland Section and Germany Section | 16 March 2017 | yes | yes | yes |
2017-14 | High Electron Mobility Transistor, 1979 | ADVOCATE NEEDED | Region 10 | Tokyo Section | 21 November 2017 |
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 |
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? |
2016-10 | Pacinotti Ring Armature, 1863 | JCMi | Region 8 | Italy Section | 22 June 2017 | 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 Date | Section support letter received? | Site owner permission letter received? | Payment commitment received? |
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 | 15 May 2018 |
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 | TBD |
2015-04 | Outdoor Large-Scale Color Display 1980 | AMg | 10 | Fukuoka | 8 March 2018 |
2015-11 | Moore's Law, 1965 | DaBar | 6 | Santa Clara Valley | 15 May 2018 |
2015-12 | French Transatlantic Cable, 1869-1898 | PIsr | 1 | Providence | July 2017 (France) and Sept 2018 (Massachusetts) |
2016-07 | Amorphous Silicon TFT Switches, 1979 | JCM | Region 8 | UKRI Section | 5 April 2018 |
2016-13 | First Magnetic Resonance Image | JaH | Region 1 | Long Island Section | TBD |
2017-07 | Electric Lighting of the Kingdom of Hawaii, 1886-1888 | AMar | Region 6 | Hawaii Section | 23 March 2018 |
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