First-Hand:50 Year Member (1963 - 2012) First Hand Histories

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IEEE was formed on 1 January 1963 through the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). So 2012 is our 50th year, and the IEEE History Center would like to recognize all those who have been loyal members since the beginning.

The 50 Year Member First Hand Histories is a special collection of First Hand Histories submitted by these members.

If you are a 50 year member and would like to contribute a First Hand History, please see the First Hand History creation instructions.

Once your First Hand History is completed, we will mark your contribution with a graphic replica of the First 50 Year Member pin shown above.

Listings for 50 Year Members

If you wish to find fellow IEEE members who share your unique perspective on the creation of IEEE, please follow any of the links listed below to search for your colleagues.

• List of 50 Year Members by Last Name
• List of 50 Year Members by Country
• List of 50 Year Members by Region
• List of 50 Year Members by Section
• List of 50 Year Members by Society

List of 50 Year Member First Hand Histories

• Electrical Power Conversion, by Harold T. Adkins
• Applying digital television technology to medical imaging = x-ray dosage reduction and non-invasive angiography, by Stanley Baron
• Digital Television: The Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) Standard, by Stanley Baron
• The Foundation of Digital Television: the origins of the 4:2:2 component digital standard, by Stanley Baron
• Inventing the Vidifont: the first electronics graphics machine used in television production, by Stanley Baron
• Recollections of the IRE, by Bradford Bates
• Invention of an Integrated Circuit, by Jack Bremer
• My Experiences at Westinghouse‎, by John, Jr. Cerminara
• Observations of the History Of Radio/Television Since the Close of World War II, by Jules Cohen
• Unmanned Aircraft Guidance Technology, by Manuel Fernandez
• My recollections of 50 years in Electronics, by Stephen Goch
• The end of PicturePhone, by Edward Goldstein
• Chad is Our Most Important Product: An Engineer's Memory of Teletype Corporation, by Jim Haynes
• Semiconductors at Purdue and Beyond, by David M. Hodgin
• Lessons Learned from Six Decades of Spacecraft Guidance and Control Experiences, by Henry C. Hoffman, Jr.
• A Look Back over the First 50 Years of IEEE‎, by G. Holman King
• It Started with Ham Radio, by Pete Lefferson
• AM Noise Reduction System, by John L. Markwalter, Jr.
• Circuit Design, Fiber Optics, Games, Detector Arrays, Voice Communications: A Journal of an Electrical Engineer, by Harold Minuskin
• Event in Telecom Switching Development, by Philip C. Richards
• Lab For Agricultural Remote Sensing, by Bill Rymer
• Real-time Telemetry Processing, by Bill Rymer
• The Lunar Module (LM) Full Mission Engineering Simulator (FMES), by John H (Jack) Sachleben
• Work at RCA on Traveling Wave Tubes, by Max J. Schindler
• How I Chose My Profession, by George W. Swenson, Jr.
• My Saturn 5 Experiences, by Darrell Tesdall
• Recollections of My Career, by Sasson Toeg
• My Recollections in Electrical Engineering, by Alvin C. Wilson
• An Electrical Engineering Education at Cornell, 1956 - 1961, by A. David Wunsch