IEEE 125 years History as presented by Lew Terman on 17th July, 2008 during the Student Congress in Singapore.

1. The IEEE at 125
Lew Terman
IEEE 2009 Past President
Some
IEEE Region 10 Students Congress
Singapore
Reflections
17 July, 2009
Lew Terman
IEEE Past President
IEEE Region 8 Meeting
Venice, Italy
26 April, 2009
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2. 1884
University of Wales, Bangor, founded
Motto: Gorau Dawn Deall
(“The Best Gift is Understanding”)
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3. Since 1884, IEEE has been fostering
technical innovation for the benefit
of humanity.
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4. 1884: The American Institute of
Electrical Engineers (AIEE) is founded
A small group of individuals met in New York and founded the AIEE to advance
the new field and represent the US at the 1884 International Electrical Exhibition
in Philadelphia. Norvin Green of Western Union became the first president.
Invitation to the AIEE
organizational meeting,
Electrical World, 5 April 1884
Program of the 1884
International Electrical
Norvin Green, President
Exhibition, Franklin
of Western Union
Institute, Philadelphia
Telegraph and first
president of the AIEE
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5. A New Industry: Electric Power
and Light
Electric power and light systems
arose primarily from Thomas
Edison’s work. Edison opened his
first electric power plant in New
York in 1882. Within a decade,
electric power had spread to every
corner of the globe, with many new
applications. The AIEE became 1906
1882 Using an electric iron
dominated by power engineers. Edison’s first commercial by an electric light
plant, Pearl St., NY
Thomas
Edison
and his
incandes-
cent light
patent
Frank Sprague
worked for Edison
before leaving to
develop the first
commercially practical
electric streetcar.
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6. AC 1890s, AC power,Powerby George Westinghouse working
In the
vs. DC championed
from inventions by Nikola Tesla, became standard because it could be efficiently
transmitted over long distances from massive power plants, such as that built at
Niagara Falls, which began sending power to Buffalo in 1896.
Nikola Tesla,
inventor of the 1905 1895
induction motor and Power Generation at Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Power Plant
a comprehensive
system for polyphase
AC power.
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7. Communications: The first
important electrical technology
Samuel Morse’s first US telegraph line connected Washington and Baltimore
in 1844. By 1866, a telegraph cable connected the United States and Europe.
Alexander Graham Bell followed in 1876 with a telegraph that talked
—the telephone.
Telegraph line 1882
congestion Telephone set
Franklin Pope,
telegraph
operator
A. G. Bell
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8. The Birth of Radio
Radio, a new electrical technology, arose in the first decade of the twentieth
century. Wireless telegraphy using spark transmitters was the original application,
but particularly after the invention of the vacuum tube amplifier, it began to be used
to transmit speech and music.
1901
Guglielmo Marconi and
George Kemp with
equipment used in
transatlantic wireless
telegraphy
1912
Radio telegraph operators’
communications with the
Alexandr Popov sinking Titanic demonstrated
Russian Radio the power of radio
Pioneer
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9. Formationcame a the IRE, 1912 of Radio
With the new industry
of new society in 1912, the Institute
Engineers or IRE, modeled on the AIEE, but devoted to radio, and later
increasingly to electronics.
IRE annual banquet, NY, 1915. Among
those attending were Tesla, Sarnoff,
IRE logo de Forest, and Alexanderson
Alfred Goldsmith
IRE Co-founder and first
journal editor
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10. Milestones:
Fleming de Forest Armstrong
Superheter
o-
dyne
Circuit
FM Radio
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(Triode)
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11. MediaRadio broadcasting swept the world. Between 1921 and 1930
In the 1920s,
Becomes Electronic
the number of US households with radios grew from close to zero to almost 14 million.
And a still newer technology, television, was moving from experiment to reality.
IRE members led the way in these developments.
Vacuum tubes, the
first electronic
amplifiers, made
radio broadcasting
and transcontinental
telephony possible.
1930s
Listening to radio 1939
RCA President
David Sarnoff opening
commercial TV service,
NY
1921
WJZ Studio, Newark NJ
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12. AIEE and IRE serve their
members and their professions
Both societies ran technical conferences, published journals, promulgated
standards, developed codes of ethics, and encouraged the training of
student engineers.
Proceedings of Proceedings of
NBC engineers at an IRE banquet
the AIEE, the IRE
September September 1926
1916
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13. World War II
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14. Solid State Electronics
The transistor and its progeny, the integrated circuit, opened enormous
possibilities for new technologies ranging from the iconic portable radio to
increasingly powerful computers. Solid state electronics became a hot field in the
post war years.
1958
Jack Kilby’s first integrated
circuit
1961
First commercial monolithic
integrated circuit, Fairchild
1947
William Shockley,
John Bardeen, and
Walter Brattain
invented the
transistor, the first
solid state amplifier
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and switch at Bell
Labs 1958
14 Transistor radio

15. Computers and Computing
By the late 1950s electronic
computers had evolved from
science fiction to tools for
scientific research and large
business applications.
Alongside rose a new
profession, that of the computer
engineer.
1952 John Von Neumann with his
experimental IAS computer
1943-
1946
ENIAC,
widely
regarded
as the
first
general
purpose
electronic
digital
1959 IBM 7090, one of the first fully
computer.
transistorized computers
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16. Microelectronics other things) microprocessors, or
As integrated circuits evolved into (among
computers on a chip, the costs dropped dramatically to the point where a
student in the early 1970s could own an electronic calculator, and the
student of the early 1980s an entire computer. Gordon Moore predicted in 1965
that the number of transistors that could be placed on a single chip would double
every two years. Moore’s law has held true for over forty years.
The Apple II
Intel’s first microprocessor, computer, introduced
the 4004 introduced in 1971, in 1978, brought
contained 2300 transistors on computing power
a single chip to desktops.
Andrew Grove, Gordon
Moore, and Robert
Noyce, founders of
the Intel Corporation
1972
Hewlett-
Packard HP35
calculator
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17. AIEE + IRE = IEEE
The idea that there should be one organization for all electrical engineers
was an old one, and became more powerful as the profession expanded
beyond its separate roots in power and radio. In 1962, the boards and
memberships of the two institutes agreed to merge.
On January 1, 1963, the IEEE was born with 150,000 members, 140,000 of whom were
in the United States.
1962
Symposium on the proposed The badge of the new IEEE
merger, IRE National Convention combined the right hand rule
from the IRE with the kite from
the AIEE
Special merger issue of the
Proceedings of the IRE
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18. IEEE – founded January 1, 1963
At creation had 7 Regions
– 6 in the US
– 1 in Canada
By the end of the ’60’s, IEEE had 10 Regions
– 6 in the US
– Canada
– Europe and Africa
– Latin America
– Asia / Pacific
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19. Dec. 2008 Total Members: 382,000
Students: 85,000
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20. Global Membership
1995 to 2008
2008 Students: 70% in R7­10
70.8
%
54.8
%
45.2
%
Recent Slope ~1.2%/yr =>
29.2 50:50 in 5 years
%
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21. MembershipTrends- Students
1995to 2008
80.0%
70.0%
70.0% 66.3% 67.4%
62.9%
60.3% 60.4% 58.7%
60.0% 55.7% 57.3% 56.4%
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50.0%
51.3% 50.1%
48.3% 48.3%
40.0% 44.3% 42.7% 43.6%
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22. The Globalizationvillage by becoming more global
IEEE responded to the emerging global
of IEEE
itself. By 2008, 43% of its 380,000 members resided in 160 countries besides
the United States.
2003
Students at
Nigeria’s Federal
University of
Technology Werra
(FUTO) greet
IEEE Spectrum 1994
Senior Editor Staff at the IEEE Beijing Section
Harry Goldstein office
2003
IEEE
Standards
regional
web
portal
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23. Now, let’s fast forward from
1963, through….
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24. … innumerable new technologies….
Integrated Circuits MEMs
Photovoltaics
Hard Disk Magnetic Storage
Smart Power/Smart Grid
Medical Electronics LEDs
Remote Learning LCD displays
MOS and CMOS Devices and Circuits Plasma displays
Radar
The Mouse
DRAM
Landing on the Moon/Space Program
PC
Magnetic Bubbles MAC
Programming Languages Work Station
Solutions/Applications/Services Software Walkman
Digital Signal Processing
GaAs/III-V Technology
iPod
Robots Cell Phones
Moore’s Law WiFi
CAD Tools Optical Fiber
Operating Systems
Digital Audio
Lasers
Word Processing Digital Photography
Spread sheets Digital TV
The Web and the Internet Wiki
Satellites
Blog
Flash Memory
Sensors Face Book
Transducers CCD Imagers
Organic Electronics CMOS Imagers
Super Computers
Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
Memory Hierarchy
RISC Architecture
…et al…
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25. IEEE Today
n More than 380,000 members, including over 80,000 student
members in more than 160 countries
n 324 sections in 10 geographic regions worldwide
n 1,784 chapters that unite local members with similar technical
interests
n 1,616 student branches and 452 student branch chapters at
colleges and universities in 80 countries
n 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of
technical interests
n 390 affinity groups consisting of Consultants' Network, Graduates of
the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering (WIE) and Life
Members (LM) groups
n Nearly 1,300 standards and projects under development
n Over 2 million documents in the IEEE Xplore® digital library
n Publishes a total of 144 transactions, journals and magazines
n Sponsors more than 900 conferences annually
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26. So where are we now?
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27. Gordon Moore
2008 IEEE Medal
of Honor Recipient
Moore’s
Law
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28. 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of Giant
Magnetorestance”
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30. ARPANET
1973
Vinton “Vint” Cerf
Internet “ Father” of the
1985 Internet
Global Internet
2009
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31. “On the Internet, nobody
knows you’re a dog…”
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32. Prof. Paul Lauterbur & Sir Peter Mansfie
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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34. 125 Years….
….It has been a long, fantastic, and
exhilarating journey….
….And the best is yet to come!
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35. Advancing Technology
for the Next 125 Years
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36. 1884: The American Institute of
Electrical Engineers (AIEE) is founded
A small group of individuals met in New York and founded the AIEE to advance
the new field and represent the US at the 1884 International Electrical Exhibition
in Philadelphia. Norvin Green of Western Union became the first president.
Program of the 1884
International Electrical
Exhibition, Franklin Norvin Green, President
Institute, Philadelphia of Western Union
Telegraph and first
president of the AIEE
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37. ARPANET 1973
Internet
1985
Vinton “Vint”
Cerf
“ Father” of the
Internet
Global Internet 2009
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