Milestones:Milestones Status Report

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

Last updated: 3 April 2014

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 on the IEEE Global History Network at: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=104   

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

A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING MILESTONES:

B. STATUSB.1 PROPOSALS BEING WRITTEN ON THE GHN AND AWAITING SUBMISSION

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-20	CRC102-A Activation 1954		8	Italy Section
2014-01	Mother of All Demos		6	Santa Clara Valley Section
2014-02	Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938		8	Ukraine Section

                                              B.2. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AWAITING ADVOCATE APPROVAL  

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-09	Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator	LF	1	Boston Section
2013-12	Bayer Color Filter Array	DBu
2013-13	Erbium-Doped Fiber Optical Amplifier	MS	8	UKRI Section
2013-20	CRC102-A Activation 1954		8	Italy Section
2013-27	[http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Improvements_in_and_relating_to_Sound-transmission,_Sound-recording_and_Sound-reproduction_systems_by_Alan_Dower_Blumlein	JImp	8	UKRI Section
2013-31	Weston Meter	EMat	1
2014-01	Mother of All Demos		6	Santa Clara Valley Section
2014-02	Zenit Three-Coordinate L-band Pulsed Radar, 1938		8	Ukraine Section

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
2013-07	Cruft High Tension Laboratory	JCM	1	Boston Section	28 March 2014
2013-18	Vapor-phase Axial Deposition	DBu	10	Tokyo Section	19 June 2013
2013-19	Virginia Smith HVDC Converter	GC	5	Denver Section	10 February 2014
2013-29	Middle and Upper Atmosphere Radar	EM	10	Kansai Section	25 February 2014

2014-03 TAT-8 Fiber Optic Cable, [TB](Region 2, New Jersey Coast Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Trans-Atlantic_Telephone_Fiber-optic_Submarine_Cable_(TAT-8)_-_1988
                                    B.4. PROPOSALS READY FOR HISTORY COMMITTEE ACTION

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2013-24	ASCII	TB	1	New Jersey Coast Section	3 April 2014
2013-30	The Abacus	HKa	10	Beijing Section	4 December 2013

        B.5.1 PROPOSALS APPROVED BY HISTORY COMMITTEE READY FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACTION(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
2013-15	Interactive Video Games	AM	1	New Hampshire Section	25 October 2013

2013-06 SPARC RISC Architecture [F-AH] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:SPARC_RISC_Architecture_Introduction,_1987
2013-16 First RISC Mircoprocessor [FA-H] (Region 6, Oakland East Bay Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_RISC_Microprocessor  
2013-22 Introduction of Apple II Computer [EJ] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Introduction_of_the_Apple_II_Computer:_1977-1978  


2013-25 TPC-1 Transpacific Cable [HK] (Region 10, Tokyo Section)  http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:TPC-1_System
2103-26 Hertz Generation of Electromagnetic Waves [MSch] (Region 8, Germany Section)  http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_generation_and_experimental_proof_of_electromagnetic_waves_1886-1888.
2013-28 Apple I Computer [EJ] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Introduction_of_the_Apple_I_Computer:_1976
                       B.6. DEDICATIONS BEING PLANNED, ALL APPROVALS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED

Docket Number	Short Name	Advocate initials	Region	Sponsoring Org Unit	Submitted Date
2012-05	Bell Laboratories Inc., The First 60 Years	DMi	1	North New Jersey Section
2013-03	First Breaking of Enigma Code by Polish Cipher Bureau	IE	8	Poland Section

2012-06 High Temperature Superconductivity [GC] (Region 5, Houston Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:High_Temperature_Superconductivity   2012-07 Line Spectrum Pair Technology for Speech Coding [dedication 22 May 2014] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Line_spectrum_pair_(LSP),_an_essential_technology_for_high-compression_speech_coding,_1975  
2013-01 Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester [dedication: 18 August 2014] (Region 10, Tokyo Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Gapless_Metal_Oxide_Surge_Arrester_(MOSA)_for_electric_power_systems,1975  
2013-04 Sharp Thin-Film Transistor LCD [Dedication 10 June 2014] (Region 10, Kansai Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Sharp_14-inch_thin-film-transistor_liquid-crystal_display_%28TFT-LCD%29_for_TV%2C_which_has_ushered_in_TFT_LCD_industry  

2013-05 (Region 7, Vancouver Section) [Dedication 19 April 2014] First Digitally Processed SAR Image http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_Digitally_Processed_Image_from_a_Spaceborne_Synthetic_Aperture_Radar  

2013-08 Birthplace of Silicon Valley [TB] (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_Birthplace_of_Silicon_Valley  
2013-10 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes [SMiz] (Region 10, Nagoya Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:The_20_inch_Diameter_Photomultiplier_Tubes   2013-11 Ampex Videorecorder [LL] (Region 6) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Ampex_Videotape_Recorder_-_1956  
2013-14 Battery Industries in Japan, (Region 10, Kansai Section) [Dedication: 12 April 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Birth_and_Growth_of_Primary_and_Secondary_Battery_Industries_in_Japan  
2013-17 Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant Region 8, Germany Section, PES) [Dedication: 25 September 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Rheinfelden_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant,_1898_-_2010  
2013-21 First Blind Flight [Dedication ceremony: 24 September 2014] (Region 1, Long Island Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:First_Blind_Flight%3A_A_Joint_IEEE-AIAA_Milestone_Proposal  
2013-23 PC Operating System 1974 (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section) [Dedication: 25 April 2014] http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:BIRTH_OF_THE_PC_OPERATING_SYSTEM_1974


                                  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
                                           C. POTENTIAL MILESTONES BEING RESEARCHED OR EXPLORED                                                                   (that History Center staff are aware of) High performance Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, 1977 Cellular radio First All-Electronic Television Broadcasts (BBC) London to Adelaide telegraph line 
Charles Kao optical fiber (R8 UKRI Section) John Logie Baird television (R8 UKRI Section) Harrisons clock (R8 UKRI Section) Photovoltaic effect (R8 – France)  
RCA Victor (R2 Philadelphia Section) 386 Micro (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section)

4004 Micro (Region 6, Santa Clara Valley Section)
Canadian Niagara Plant (Region 7)
Oberlin-Smith electromagnetic recording (Region 2, South Jersey Section) (possible ASME codesignation?)

                                                         D. OTHER MILESTONES ACTIVITY Return to Milestone Program Guidelines

Docket Number

Short Name

Advocate initials

Region

Sponsoring Org Unit

Dedication Date