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ISSUE 91, March 2013

Static from the Director...... 2

Staff Notes ...... 3 Nipper Visits IEEE History Center

Center Activities ...... 3 Locating the Sceptical Chymist New Search Engine for GHN IEEE Institutional History Videos

Milestones ...... 6

Things to See and Do ...... 6 Antique Wireless Museum National Museum of Mathematics

Grants and Fellowships...... 8

Donors and Supporters...... 8

Bibliography ...... 12

Pictured Right: Wheeler Gift Book Plate IEEE History Center STATIC FROM THE DIRECTOR

The newsletter reports on the activities By Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is of the IEEE History Center and on up for renewal, and we are exploring with new resources and projects in electrical As you will see in this issue, our regular activ- and computer history. It is published them and with other potential partners ways ities, such as Milestones, oral histories, the three times each year—once in hard copy to enhance our capabilities. All of the parties (March) and twice electronically (July and archives, and the IEEE Global History Network at the table agree that public history of tech- November) by the IEEE History Center. (GHN), continue to roll along. However, 2013 nology is an important component in chang- is also looking to be a key year for the IEEE IEEE History Center ing the conversation about engineering, in 39 Union St History Center from a broader strategic per- enhancing STEM education, and in raising New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538 USA spective. Firstly, the results from our survey of Telephone: +1 732 562 5450 technological literacy. Like the respondents to engineering educators is in, and they suggest Fax: +1 732 932 1193 our on-line course survey, however, they also E-mail: [email protected] that we should push ahead with our initiative agree that such outreach efforts should not be URL: www.ieee.org/history_center to develop an on-line history of engineering limited to narrow disciplines. and technology course that could cover all Therefore, it is particularly exciting that technical fields and be available to institutions IEEE History Committee 2013 the United Engineering Foundation has seen of higher education around the world. Sec- Lyle Feisel, Chair fit to fund us to host a workshop of all the ondly, our contract with our strategic partner, Fiorenza Albert-Howard founding engineering societies, in order to ex- Theodore Bickart David Burger Gilmore Cooke Subscription Information members are encouraged to subscribe as well) to Irving Engelson [email protected] Elizabeth Johnston The IEEE History Center newsletter is available free Hirohisa Kawamoto Current and past issues of the newsletter can Allison Marsh to all persons interested in technological history be accessed at: www.ieee.org/about/history Eiju Matsumoto – whether engineers, scholars, researchers, hob- _center/newsletters.html David Michelson byists, or interested members of the public. It is The IEEE History Center is a non-profit organ- Juan Carlos Miguez published in hard copy in March, and in electronic ization which relies on your support to preserve, re- Thomas Misa form in July and November of each year. search, and promote the legacy of electrical Antonio Perez Yuste To subscribe to the IEEE History Center’s engineering and computing. To support the Cen- Mischa Schwartz free newsletter, please send your name, ter’s projects – such as the Global History Network, postal mailing address, e-mail address (optional Milestones, and Oral History Collection, please click IEEE History Center Staff if you wish to receive the electronic versions), the "Donate Online" tab at www.ieee.org/donate and IEEE member number (if applicable – non- or www.ieeefoundation.org/ Michael Geselowitz, Staff Director [email protected] Sheldon Hochheiser, Archivist and NEWSLETTER SUBMISSION BOX Institutional Historian [email protected] The IEEE History Center Newsletter welcomes submissions of Letters to the Editor, as well as articles Alexander Magoun, Outreach “ ” “ ” “ ” Historian for its Reminiscences and Relic Hunting departments. Reminiscences are accounts of history of a [email protected] technology from the point of view of someone who worked in the technical area or was closely connected to someone who was. They may be narrated either in the first person or third person. “Relic John Vardalas, Outreach Historian Hunting” are accounts of finding or tracking down tangible pieces of electrical history in interesting or [email protected] unsuspected places (in situ and still operating is of particular interest). Length: 500-1200 words. Sub- Nathan Brewer, Digital Content mit to [email protected]. Articles and letters to the editor may be edited for style or length. Manager [email protected] Robert Colburn, Research Coordinator The IEEE History Center Newsletter Advertising Rates [email protected] The newsletter of the IEEE History Center is published three times per annum; one issue (March) in paper, the other two (July and November) electronically. The circulation of the paper issue is IEEE prohibits discrimination, 4,800; the circulation of the electronic issues is 22,500. The newsletter reaches engineers, retired harassment and bullying. engineers, researchers, archivists, and curators interested specifically in the history of electrical, For more information visit electronics, and computing engineering, and the history of related technologies. www.ieee.org/nondiscrimination Cost Per Issue

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2 STATIC FROM THE DIRECTOR Issue 91 March 2013 plore closer cooperation in history. In particular, we would like recognize you, our donors on our special Honor Role (see page to see if we can leverage the investment that IEEE has already 9). I am constantly gratified and humbled by your steady sup- made in the GHN to provide a common web platform from port for our program to preserve and make known the proud which to launch our history and heritage programs. Stay tuned legacy of IEEE, its members, their professions, and the related for the July newsletter for updates to all three of these technologies. I want to assure you that as we move ahead with exciting initiatives. our strategic initiatives we will only grow stronger, and we will This issue is also the annual print edition when we get to honor your trust in us to carry out this mission.

STAFF NOTES NIPPER VISITS THE HISTORY CENTER

Where does Nipper go when his master turns out the lights? the assemblage, Alex strapped Nipper under a seatbelt and That was the question raised last November at the final luncheon drove him back to the Center before effecting the transfer to of RCA retirees in Mountainside, New Jersey. Some seventy-five TCNJ curator Emily Croll. former members of the semiconductor division in Somerville; the electron tube division in Harrison; the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton; the record pressing plant in Rockaway; and the semiconductor factory in Rocky Top, Pennsylvania, met for a last hurrah at L’Affaire. Lou Possemato, who oversaw the gath- ering, brought with him the four-foot-high plastic statue of RCA’s iconic trademarked dog, which had been signed by attendees ever since the luncheons began in the years after General Elec- tric bought RCA in 1986. IEEE History Center outreach historian Alex Magoun attended, and suggested that a suitable home would be the Sarnoff Museum in development at The College of New Jersey. ( https://davidsarnoff.pages.tcnj.edu/ )Thismu- seum, recently the recipient of an IEEE Foundation grant, contains the artifacts of the David Sarnoff Library, everything from During his brief visit to New Brunswick, Nipper consented to a David Sarnoff’s desk to the first blue LED to one of RCA’s first photograph with the available staff of the Center. commercial color television receivers. After a general assent by

CENTER ACTIVITIES LOCATING THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST :ARESEARCHREQUEST

In late 2012, IEEE received a telephone inquiry from Professor IEEE Institutional Historian and Archivist Sheldon Hochheiser, Gregory Girolami, a distinguished chemist on the faculty of the the call was transferred to his line. Hochheiser was familiar University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Girolami, a student with the holdings of the closed library, and was certain that not only of chemistry but of the history of chemistry as well, there had been no copy of Boyle’s book, or any other old or was attempting to develop of a comprehensive list of all known rare book there. copies of the first 1661 edition of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Hochheiser had a good idea what had happened, and— as Chymist, one of the seminal works in that discipline. Accord- he explained to Girolami—it was a tale that went back to 1900. ing to the British Library’s Short Title List—an authoritative union In that year, Dr. Schuyler Staats Wheeler purchased a most re- catalog of English-language books, serials, periodicals and markable private library, that of Latimer Clark. This library was a ephemera published before 1801—one of thirty-one cataloged collection of 7000 titles—books, pamphlets, journals, ephemera— copies of The Sceptical Chymist was held by the “Library of the on electricity and magnetism, with many rare titles going back to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway New the earliest years of the printing press. Dr. Wheeler in turn do- Jersey”. As Professor Girolami soon found out, IEEE did not nated the collection to the library of the American Institute of have a library. It had closed a few years earlier, a victim of the Electrical Engineers (one of IEEE’s predecessors) in 1901, with growth of online resources. But figuring that if anyone in IEEE certain conditions: that it be properly cataloged and housed as knew anything about a seventeenth century book, it would be a reference library available for all in New York City. Over the Continued on Page 4 3 IEEE History Center CENTER ACTIVITIES years, AIEE came to share its headquarters with major rare book holdings, in the city— building in New York with other engineer- the New York Public Library. The NYPL was ing societies, first from 1907 in the Engi- interested, so the United Engineering Library neering Societies building on West 39th St. staff separated the contents of the Wheeler and—after 1961—in the United Engineering collection from the rest of the library, and Center on East 47th St. The Wheeler Col- the United Engineering Trustees and IEEE lection was incorporated into the Engineer- donated the collection to the Rare Books ing Societies Library, which became one of Division of the New York Public library in the largest technical libraries in the world, 1995, where it can be found today. with not only historical material but a com- Hochheiser checked the History Cen- prehensive collection of relevant periodicals ter’s copy of the original 1909 printed catalog and books. for the Wheeler gift, and indeed found listed Circumstances change, and by the early as item #146, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical 1990s the United Engineering Trustees, rep- Chymist, London, 1661. He also found the resenting the component societies, decided book in listed in the “Survey of the Wheeler to close the library because of declining use Gift” prepared in 1986 by the IEEE History and revenue. Responsibly, they sought out Center. He suggested to Girolami that the other libraries that might be able to take the book should be in the Rare Books Division contents of the library so that material would of the New York Public Library. continue to be available for use. They chose Girolami contacted the New York Pub- the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. But lic Library, which responded that indeed Wheeler’s original deed of gift mandated they had the book. They enclosed several that his donation be kept intact in New York City, or else be photographs of the front of the book, including one with the given back to his descendants. Thus, disposal of this part of the book plate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In library required the approval of the Attorney General of the total, Girolami’s census of The Sceptical Chymist now includes State of New York, acting on behalf of the New York State fifty-five copies with verified locations, a number he notes is “far Supreme Court. So a solution had to be found that would sat- fewer than is characteristic of other well-known science books isfy the state. Fortunately, there was an appropriate institution, from the period.“

GHN UPDATE

NEW SEARCH ENGINE FOR GLOBAL HISTORY NETWORK Replacing the previous Sphinx search engine, the Global History Network now uses Lucene, a far more powerful tool, which is currently used on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. It in- corporates distributed search and indexing for rapid return of ranked results. The major improvement over Sphinx, the previous search engine installed on the GHN, is its advanced rele- vancy ranking capabilities. Lucene's ranking algorithm is based on term proximity, relatedness, and anchor text, and allows for a far superior ranking to Sphinx. It also features an accentless search, which allows the parsing of accented characters; for example if one searches for "Ampere", it will also recognize results for "Ampère." Another useful feature of Lucene is that it has a form of spellchecking; if one types in "transittor," it will suggest "transistor" as a possible match. When the search results are returned, the search engine will show the search term highlighted within the context of the page.

IEEE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY VIDEOS Since November, sixteen VHS and U-matic tapes have been digitized and posted on the Global History Network. These tapes include a number of programs related to IEEE Institutional His- tory, including a 1972 video for section leadership hosted by Bill 4 Middleton, a 1987 overview of IEEE activities hosted by long- CENTER ACTIVITIES Issue 91 March 2013 time Executive Director Eric Herz, and a taped debate of the 1996 IEEE Presidential candidates. These videos, in addition to THANK YOU TO OUR the remainder of the video collection, can be viewed here: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Archives:Videos HISTORY CENTER LIFE MEMBER LEGACIES DONORS! In the 1980s and early 1990s, the IEEE Life Member Fund Newsletter invited any interested Life Member to submit their Your support helps preserve the life story for publishing. Over 200 first hand accounts from IEEE heritage of IEEE’s technologies. Life Members were collected and published in the 1994 book Legacies. The IEEE History Center has digitized these stories and posted a total of 78 on the Global History Network and is plan- ning to post the rest in the future.

50 YEAR MEMBER FIRST HAND HISTORIES 2012 marked the 50th year of IEEE in its current incarnation, and as a token of recognition, all IEEE Members who have been a continuous member since 1963 were awarded a 50 Year Member pin, and invited to submit their stories to the IEEE Global History Network. Over the course of 2012, the IEEE History Center collected and posted 63 of these First Hand Histories on the Global History Network. The History Center is still accepting submissions for 50 Year Member’s First Hand Histories, which can be sent through the website, through email or as a hard copy through the mail. To view the Life Member Legacy First Hand Histories and the 50 Year Member First Hand Histories, or to submit your Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution own, please visit the First Hand Histories landing page: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:FirstHandHistories

MULTISOCIETY WORKSHOP

AIChE, AIME, ASCE, ASME and IEEE, collectively known the Therefore, the IEEE History Center approached the United En- “founding engineering societies” (of the U.S) have each recog- gineering Foundation (UEF) that represents the founding soci- nized the importance of raising public awareness of the role of eties about supporting a workshop to bring together all of the engineering in society; improving technological literacy among founding societies to discuss cooperative historical activity, and the citizens of an increasingly technologically-based society; and especially the idea of using the GHN as a joint platform. The enhancing the image of the engineer in order to improve the UEF granted our request. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, while morale of the profession; and to attract the best and brightest not supplying funds at this time, also endorsed the concept. young people to its ranks. At least implicitly, and in most cases The workshop was held at the IEEE Operations Center on explicitly, all recognize that the histories of their organizations, 4 and 5 February 2013. In attendance were: seventeen volun- their members, their professions, and the related technologies teer and staff representatives of IEEE (including History Com- play a key role in this public visibility and outreach effort. IEEE, mittee Chair Lyle Feisel), AIChE, AIME, ASCE, ASME, SPE, and ASCE, and ASME have active standing history and heritage com- SWE; Dennis Martenson, President of UEF; and an outside fa- mittees. AIChE defers much of its historical activity to the Chem- cilitator. The workshop produced an overwhelming consensus ical Heritage Foundation, which was once a cooperative venture that the societies should collaborate more closely in their his- with the American Chemical Society but is now a stand-alone torical activities, particularly with regards to web presence, and organization. All of the founding societies also recognize that, that the IEEE Global History Network (GHN) is an outstanding in outreach to the general public, the public does not make dis- platform that should form the core of the new site. The partic- tinctions between different branches of engineering. ipants agreed to form a consortium to more specifically envision Of the founding societies, IEEE has the largest history op- the combined site and to approach the UEF for implementa- eration and the most cutting-edge web presence, the IEEE tion funding. Stay tuned for exciting further developments! Global History network (GHN; see pp. 4-5 for an update).

5 IEEE History Center CENTER ACTIVITIES A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME… KEEPING

Continuing our efforts in pre-university social studies education, ucators learned how to integrate this important technological on 8 February Center staff members Michael Geselowitz and area into their teaching of history, and worked with the History John Vardalas presented an all-day workshop to twelve New Center to produce corresponding curricular material to be made Jersey High school history teachers. Once again teaming with available to instructors around the world through the Education the Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis’ Institute Portal on the IEEE Global History network. The feedback from for High School Teachers, the staff’s topic was the interplay the teachers shows that this continues to be an important re- among the technology of timekeeping, other technologies, and source for them, and we will be exploring converting the work- other human activities throughout world history, from Stone- shops into webinars which could be delivered around the henge to the sundial to the Seiko Spring Drive Watch. The ed- globe.

MILESTONES MILESTONES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EXPANDS PRO- GRAM TO NEW COUNTRIES DURING 2012

The IEEE Milestones Program saw milestones dedicated in two Bose experiments in radio, 15 September 2012 (R10 – Central additional countries, recognizing the important achievements India) made in those places. There were two milestones dedicated in Raman Effect, 15 September 2012 (R10 – Central India Section) India — Bose’s Millimeter Wave Experiments and The Raman Ef- Bar Code, 22 October 2012 (R2 Philadelphia Section) fect — which were the first IEEE Milestones dedicated in that http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone- country. Uruguay also dedicated its first Milestone: the Rincon Nomination:Birthplace_of_the_Bar_Code,_1948 del Bonete hydroelectric plant. In addition, the IEEE Boston Sec- tion hosted a bravura celebration of three Milestone dedications First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 26 October 2012, at once during the June IEEE Board of Directors meeting series. Photonics Society http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/ Milestone-Nomination:First_Optical_Fiber_Laser_and_ Field Effect Electron Microscope, 31 January 2012 (R10 – Tokyo) Amplifier G3 Facsimile, 5 April 2012 (R10 – Tokyo Section) Rincon del Bonete [LF] (R9 – Uruguay Section) Low Loss Optical Fiber, 1 May 2012 (R1– Photonics Society) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone- B&O Railroad electrification 21 June 2012 (R2 – Baltimore Section) Nomination:Rincon_del_Bonete_Hydroelectric_Plant_and_ LORAN, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section) Transmission_System Whirlwind Computer 27 June 2012 (R1– Boston Section) For more information on the IEEE Milestones Program, including a list of all dedicated milestones in chronological SAGE system, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section) order, as well as information on proposing technical First Reliable HV Fuse, 3 August 2012 (R4 – Chicago Section) achievements as milestones, we invite you to visit the Floating Gate EEPROM, 21 August 2012 (R6, Santa Clara Valley IEEE Global History Network’s Milestone page at Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Milestones

THINGS TO SEE AND DO ANTIQUE WIRELESS MUSEUM 2013 GRAND RE-OPENING & CONVENTION

The Antique Wireless Museum will be re-opening at its new lo- New York. The dual themes of this year’s convention are the cation on August 20, 2013, in conjunction with the 2013 An- “GRAND RE-OPENING” of the museum and “HEATHKIT.” tique Wireless Association World Convention. The convention The Antique Wireless Association preserves and shares the will be held August 20-24, 2013, at the Rochester Institute of history of the technologies used for communication and enter- Technology Conference Center in Henrietta, New York. The tainment. These include electrical science, telegraph and wired 6 Antique Wireless Museum is located nearby in Bloomfield, communication, wireless, radio, television, and cellular tech- THINGS TO SEE AND DO Issue 91 March 2013 nologies. Founded in 1952, AWA is the library contains more than 200,000 oldest and largest U.S. organization of books, catalogues, magazines, rare doc- its kind with an international member- uments, slides and photographs, and it ship of approximately two thousand is the depository for the 100-year histor- collectors, academics, and historians of ical archive of the Radio Club of America. all ages and walks of life. 2013 CONVENTION – The AWA An- The Antique Wireless Museum is nual World Convention offers approxi- located in Bloomfield, New York, U.S.A. mately 500 participants four-and-a-half near Rochester. The collections repre- days of total immersion in telegraph, sent the past 150 years of scientific and wireless, and radio history, including technological development of elec- presentations and seminars, historical tronic communications and contain displays featuring rare equipment arti- more than 25,000 artifacts and more facts and documentation, a book fair, than 150,000 vacuum tubes. AWA’s flea market, and banquet. new three-building campus includes Visit www.antiquewireless.org the museum, the Max Bodmer Library and Media Center, and a for more information about AWA including a membership ap- restoration center and exhibit-construction facility. Future plans plication. The dedicated website www.awamuseum.org infor the Museum include the installation of a new theater and cludes information about the 2013 Convention and Museum further development of exhibits and programs. The Museum grand reopening.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS, NEW YORK, NY

In the city that never sleeps, it makes sense that a museum mer gardener—to try generating a conifer from her wheelchair should never close. The National Museum of Mathematics, or instead of the deciduous trees typically produced. A shape MoMath, the latest addition to such offerings in New York City, changing display introduced the concept of limits by challeng- opened 15 December 2012. Founder Glen Whitney—a logician- ing users to maximize the area inside various regular polygons, turned-hedge-fund-analyst who wanted to give back to society which would have been better if the computer recognized all some of what he’s earned—and his associate director Cindy four given shapes. Lawrence, along with Tim Nissen, created a showcase to pro- On the ground, or 0, Floor, the String Product Times Table mote the fun and excitement of mathematics. Ten days after features eighty-one electroluminescent rope lines connected to MoMath opened, IEEE History Center Outreach Historian Alex ten rings, demonstrating another way of thinking about what Magoun, CUNY mathematics instructor Hong Yuan, their 12- we traditionally associate with a two-dimensional matrix. The year-old son, and Magoun’s mother paid it a visit. Institute of Creative Problem Solving provided the “Tracks of Even on a holiday, the two-story (Floors 0 and -1) facility Galileo,” where one can adjust the slope of two rails to test the facing Madison Square Park was packed at midday. In keeping law of inertia. Kx Systems, an applied mathematics software with current understanding about the preferences of most mu- company owned by Whitney’s brother, contributed Sixth Sense, seum visitors, there is no sequence to follow, and minimal ex- which uses a programmed matrix of Nixie tubes to predict the planation on exhibit labels. Unlike formal mathematics, one sum of six numbers chosen by a visitor. As the mathematics does not need to learn from a simpler exhibit to engage a more instructor noted, there was no explanation of this example of sophisticated one. The museum’s charge is to “stimulate in- number theory. An interactive Formula Morph display lets visi- quiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics,” tors set and adjust parameters to Klein bottles, Chmutov and many of the activities accomplished at least one of those Surfaces, etc., and view the results onscreen. Besides the pro- objectives within or beyond the target audience of 8- to 12-year grams, there are physically-realized mathematics in the tricycle old children. with square wheels that rides on a series of catenary curves, We descended to Floor -1 to try the Math Square, “a good and the Hyper Hyperboloid, where someone rotating a chair puzzle” per Alex’s son, which used LEDs to engage people in controls the angles of two sets of colored ropes encircling it. graph theory, albeit without telling them: how do you get to the MoMath can be recommended for all ages regardless of end of a maze without taking a left turn? The Enigma Café fea- interests or talents. By the time of publication, the exhibits la- tured a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional puzzles that beled “Problem Solving in Progress: Solution Underway” should were hugely popular with older children. Feedback Fractals of- be operational. National Museum of Mathematics, 11 East 26th fered an infinite mirror using three cameras and four screens, Street, New York, NY 10010, www.momath.org 212 542-0566, while the fractal Human Tree station based on Microsoft’s 10 AM - 5 PM, daily. Kinect motion-sensing input device led the oldest visitor—a for- 7 IEEE History Center GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2012 IEEE LIFE MEMBERS’PRIZE PAPER AWARD WINNER IS BERNARD GEOGHEGAN

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) has awarded tered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded the 2012 IEEE Life Member Prize Paper award to Bernard Diony- annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology— sius Geoghegan. Geoghegan won for his paper “From Infor- power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer sci- mation Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss and the ence—published during the preceding year. Any article Cybernetic Approach,” published in Critical Inquiry volume 38 published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or (Autumn 2011). The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical His- engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. tory, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and adminis-

DONORS AND SUPPORTERS DONOR HIGHLIGHT: PERHAPS IT IS TIME TO GIVE BACK

L. Dennis Shapiro, IEEE Life Fellow, part,” Dennis said about his participation in IEEE activities. joined IEEE in 1951. The impact Dennis had on IEEE did not stop there. Dennis Dennis grew up wanting to be an recently made donations to the three IEEE Foundation held Electrical Engineer. When he was a Funds of the IEEE History Center: the IEEE History Center Fund, student he joined the Institute of the IEEE History Center Oral Histories Fund and the IEEE History Radio Engineers and the American In- Center Endowment Fund. When asked why he directed his sup- stitute of Electrical Engineers before port to those funds Dennis said, “I feel that much of the wisdom they merged in 1963 to form IEEE. He in electrical engineering is in its history. Learning about how continued membership because he technology was discovered or invented and applied historically was proud of his profession, as repre- can be helpful in creating new technologies for the future. sented by IEEE, and wanted to support Knowing about individuals who are role models will inspire its programs. Dennis feels that the new engineers for generations to come.” “much of the greatest benefit of IEEE membership Dennis feels that it is important for IEEE members to sup- wisdom in was the publication of technical papers port the IEEE Foundation because, “the Foundation's programs electrical in his earlier years and elevation to Fel- of education, inspiration and preservation serve IEEE, its mem- engineering low recently, which he says is his fond- bers and the public to better know, understand and appreciate is in its history” est IEEE memory. the importance of the profession and the opportunities it brings When Dennis was elevated to Life to our youth and our world,” he said. Member his IEEE dues were waived, as they are for all IEEE Life Members. It opened up his thinking, he said, “perhaps it is time The IEEE History Center relies on donations to maintain and to give back to the organization that helped me to develop my expand its programs. You can support the IEEE History Center professional skills, to achieve personal success and to do work by making a donation online at www.ieee.org/donate. benefitting millions of elderly people with Lifeline Systems, Inc.” You may direct your gift to the IEEE History Center Fund of the Throughout the years Dennis belonged to a number of IEEE So- IEEE Foundation. cieties and attended some conferences, but he became more active recently. In 2006, while attending the Consumer Elec- tronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, USA, he became aware of the In- IRA CHARITABLE ROLLOVER ternational Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), a conference sponsored by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Soci- IS BACK! ety (CE Society), of which he had been a member of for many years. He attended ICCE and became acquainted with the CE The IRA Charitable Rollover provision was extended through the Society leaders. Realizing that there was no CE Society chapter end of 2013 within the U.S. The “rollover” provision allows U.S. IRA owners aged 70½ and older, to make federally tax-free in Boston, he set out to establish one, which was accomplished charitable distributions up to $100,000 per year per person from in September 2011. He became more active with the CE Soci- their IRAs directly to eligible charities, such as the IEEE Founda- ety and was asked to join the Administrative Committee as VP tion. Charitable distributions must be issued directly from the Industrial Relations in 2013. “I believe that a healthy organiza- IRA administrator and may be used to satisfy the annual IRA re- tion is important for a healthy profession, and I want to do my quired minimum distribution. Visit the www.ieeefoundation.org to learn more. 8 DONORS AND SUPPORTERS Issue 91 March 2013 2012 DONOR LIST

IEEE History Center Preservationists Circle IEEE Magnetics Society IBM Corporation IEEE Signal Processing Society Don H. Johnson, Ph.D. Recognizing donors who have made significant IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Joseph Keithley* contributions to the History Center at crucial stages Susumu Kobayashi in its founding and development. Laurence R. Avins Harold. W. Lord Earl Bakken IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society John Meggitt Paul and Evelyn Baran Fund IEEE Circuits and Systems Society John K. Menoudakos Frank A. Brand IEEE Communications Society NEC Michael D. Brown IEEE Denver Section Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) John Bryant* IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Jun-ichi Nishozawa Central Japan Railroad IEEE Foundation Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry IEEE Incorporated Emerson and Elizabeth Pugh Fund of the Fidelity Fund Jules Cohen, P.E. IEEE Life Members Committee Emerson W. Pugh Lawrence H. Crooks IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Theodore S. Saad* Charles A. Eldon* IEEE Power Engineering Society Sematech Electric Power Development Corporation, Tokyo IEEE Electron Devices Society Takashi Sugiyama Electro-Mechanics Company IEEE Power Engineering Society Tokyo Electric Power Company The Elias Family in Memory of Peter Elias* IEEE Signal Processing Society Topol Family Fund at the Boston Foundation The Gerald and Thelma Estrin Living Trust IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Toshiba Corporation GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd. IEEE Laser and Optics Society Rudolf A. Wassmer Hitachi, Ltd. Yokogawa Electric Company

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ALTSCHULER, EDWARD E. KAISER, DAVID, editor The Rise and Fall of Air Force Cambridge Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision, Research Laboratories,2013 MIT Press, 2012

This monograph provides a 2011 marked the 150th chronological account of anniversary of the Massa- how a fledgling research lab- chusetts Institute of Technol- oratory, which evolved from ogy, arguably the best known the MIT Radiation Labora- institution of technoscientific tory and the Harvard Radio higher learning in the world. Research Laboratory after Atthetimewereviewedan WorldWarII,rosetobe- “unofficial” biography of MIT come one of the premier re- founder William Barton search laboratories in the Rogers, and wrote about the world. It contains extensive long-term connections be- primary documents (letters, tween MIT and IEEE. Now faxes, emails) of interest to we have an opportunity to the historian. review an “official” book that came out of the celebra- Available from Amazon.com tions, which has just been at: www.amazon.com/ reprinted in paperback. Rise-Force-Cambridge-Research-Laboratories/dp/1481832514/ As explained in the introduction, this is not meant to be a ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358964682&sr=8-1&keywords survey history of MIT (at fewer than 200 pages, how could it be?), =the+rise+and+fall+of+air+force+research but rather a collection of eight essays about particular moment’s in MIT’s history that were affected by, and in turn had impact on both American society and global technology and education. Therefore, one will miss some of one’s favorites—no entries in the index for Jerry Lettvin or hacking—while each chapter may seem at first glance to be quite distinct from the others. On the other hand, the prominence of the historians of technology recruited to con- tribute to this work again highlights the role of MIT in development 12 of 20th century technology, and each contribution is worth reading BIBLIOGRAPHY Issue 91 March 2013 in its own right. At the same time, remarkably, taken together, the NAHIN, PAUL J., essays give a good picture of the development of MIT. The volume The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole also wrestles honestly with some of MIT’s political and social chal- lenges, such as its role as a major military contractor during the and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age, Cold War, and the dearth of women in its ranks. It is well worth Princeton University Press, 2013 reading. Nahin’s fascinating book Available from The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 800-358-0343, shows the historical con- fax: +1 617-625-6660, http://mitpress.mit.edu, paper, $14.95, nections between the sys- ISBN 978-0-262-51815-4 (original hardcover, 2010, $29.95, ISBN tem of algebra developed 978-0-262-11323-6), 199 pp., index, 40 illus. in the late 1840s and early 1850s by George Boole, the papers on information theory published by Claude Shannon in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the way the ideas in those publica- tions govern the operations of electronic circuits thereafter. Thebookbeginswitha short biography each of Boole and Shannon, fol- lowed by a chapter on Boolean Algebra, a chapter on Logical Switching Circuits; Boole, Shannon and Probability; Some Combinatorial Logic Examples; Sequential- State Digital Circuits; Turing Machines, and concludes with a chapter “Beyond Boole and Shannon.” Shannon was particularly interested in probabilities of failure in relays, and the chapter “Boole, Shannon, and Probability” shows how Shannon’s work is used in the design of reliable relays. “Com- binatorial Logic Examples” shows how Shannon’s logic is used to determine channel capacity and to detect and correct errors in information transmission. In addition to the history, the book is full of logical puzzles to engage the reader who enjoys working with the underlying algebra.

Available from Princeton University Press, 41 William St, Princeton, NJ, 05840, U.S.A., www.press.princeton.edu hardback, $24.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-15100-7, 228 pp, index, illus.

Book Note: A reprint of the 1983 book, Builders of Modern India: Jagadis Chandra Bose by Visvapriya Mukherji ISBN 978-81-230-1611-5 has been published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Inda, http://publicationsdivision.nic.in A pioneer of microwave physics, J.C. Bose is remembered for his millimeter wave communications experiments. 13 IEEE History Center BIBLIOGRAPHY

BELL LABS MEMOIRS: VOICES OF INNOVATION published by the IEEE History Center

The innovative spirit and creative energy of Bell Labs during the directorship of William Baker are described in this new book by twelve people who worked there. The first-hand accounts are by: John Pierce, father of communications satellites; Manfred Schroeder, speech encoding; Walter Brown, developer of silicon semicon- ductors; Carol Maclennan, computers and the Ulysses spacecraft; Alan Chynoweth, materials research, David Dorsi, expert glassblower; Ed- ward Zajac, submarine cables and economics research; Edwin Chandross, optical memories and organic materials (inventor of the now ubiquitous light stick); Italo Quinto, chauffer to William Baker; Mohan Sondhi, inventor of the adaptive echo canceller; William Keefauver, Bell Labs’ general patent attorney; and lastly, William Baker himself. Through their eyes and words, the culture of Bell Labs comes to life.

The research done at Bell Labs led to many devices and techniques that helped build our present world. Acoustic cameras, adaptive pre- dictive coding, block diagram compilers, cryp- tography, diamond crystal research, digital communication, echo research, inverse filtering, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), magnetic bubble memories, microwaves, organic field effect transistors, pulse code modulation, synthetic speech, transistors, traveling-wave tubes, and vocoders are among the topics recalled by the contributors to this book.

Available from Amazon.com in hard copy, and also on Kindle at: http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Labs-Memoirs-Innovation- Geselowitz/dp/1463677979/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320151019&sr=1-1

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