IEEE History CenterISSUE 91, March 2013

Pictured Right:Wheeler Gift Book Plate

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

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IEEEHistory Committee 2013Lyle Feisel, ChairFiorenza Albert-HowardTheodore BickartDavid BurgerGilmore CookeIrving EngelsonElizabeth JohnstonHirohisa KawamotoAllison MarshEiju MatsumotoDavid MichelsonJuan Carlos MiguezThomas MisaAntonio Perez YusteMischa Schwartz

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By Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D.

As you will see in this issue, our regular activ-ities, such as Milestones, oral histories, thearchives, and the IEEE Global History Network(GHN), continue to roll along. However, 2013is also looking to be a key year for the IEEEHistory Center from a broader strategic per-spective. Firstly, the results from our survey ofengineering educators is in, and they suggestthat we should push ahead with our initiativeto develop an on-line history of engineeringand technology course that could cover alltechnical fields and be available to institutionsof higher education around the world. Sec-ondly, our contract with our strategic partner,

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, isup for renewal, and we are exploring withthem and with other potential partners waysto enhance our capabilities. All of the partiesat the table agree that public history of tech-nology is an important component in chang-ing the conversation about engineering, inenhancing STEM education, and in raisingtechnological literacy. Like the respondents toour on-line course survey, however, they alsoagree that such outreach efforts should not belimited to narrow disciplines.

Therefore, it is particularly exciting thatthe United Engineering Foundation has seenfit to fund us to host a workshop of all thefounding engineering societies, in order to ex-

plore closer cooperation in history. In particular, we would liketo see if we can leverage the investment that IEEE has alreadymade in the GHN to provide a common web platform fromwhich to launch our history and heritage programs. Stay tunedfor the July newsletter for updates to all three of theseexciting initiatives.

This issue is also the annual print edition when we get to

recognize you, our donors on our special Honor Role (see page9). I am constantly gratified and humbled by your steady sup-port for our program to preserve and make known the proudlegacy of IEEE, its members, their professions, and the relatedtechnologies. I want to assure you that as we move ahead withour strategic initiatives we will only grow stronger, and we willhonor your trust in us to carry out this mission.

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Where does Nipper go when his master turns out the lights?That was the question raised last November at the final luncheonof RCA retirees in Mountainside, New Jersey. Some seventy-fiveformer members of the semiconductor division in Somerville;the electron tube division in Harrison; the David Sarnoff ResearchCenter in Princeton; the record pressing plant in Rockaway; andthe semiconductor factory in Rocky Top, Pennsylvania, met for alast hurrah at L’Affaire. Lou Possemato, who oversaw the gath-ering, brought with him the four-foot-high plastic statue of RCA’siconic trademarked dog, which had been signed by attendeesever since the luncheons began in the years after General Elec-tric bought RCA in 1986. IEEE History Center outreach historianAlex Magoun attended, and suggested that a suitable homewould be the Sarnoff Museum in development at The College ofNew Jersey. ( https://davidsarnoff.pages.tcnj.edu/ ) This mu-seum, recently the recipient of an IEEE Foundation grant, con-tains the artifacts of the David Sarnoff Library, everything fromDavid Sarnoff’s desk to the first blue LED to one of RCA’s firstcommercial color television receivers. After a general assent by

the assemblage, Alex strapped Nipper under a seatbelt anddrove him back to the Center before effecting the transfer toTCNJ curator Emily Croll.

NIPPER VISITS THE HISTORY CENTER

CENTER ACTIVITIES

In late 2012, IEEE received a telephone inquiry from ProfessorGregory Girolami, a distinguished chemist on the faculty of theUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Girolami, a studentnot only of chemistry but of the history of chemistry as well,was attempting to develop of a comprehensive list of all knowncopies of the first 1661 edition of Robert Boyle’s The ScepticalChymist, one of the seminal works in that discipline. Accord-ing to the British Library’s Short Title List—an authoritative unioncatalog of English-language books, serials, periodicals andephemera published before 1801—one of thirty-one catalogedcopies of The Sceptical Chymist was held by the “Library of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NewJersey”. As Professor Girolami soon found out, IEEE did nothave a library. It had closed a few years earlier, a victim of thegrowth of online resources. But figuring that if anyone in IEEEknew anything about a seventeenth century book, it would be

IEEE Institutional Historian and Archivist Sheldon Hochheiser,the call was transferred to his line. Hochheiser was familiarwith the holdings of the closed library, and was certain thatthere had been no copy of Boyle’s book, or any other old orrare book there.

Hochheiser had a good idea what had happened, and— ashe explained to Girolami—it was a tale that went back to 1900.In that year, Dr. Schuyler Staats Wheeler purchased a most re-markable private library, that of Latimer Clark. This library was acollection of 7000 titles—books, pamphlets, journals, ephemera—on electricity and magnetism, with many rare titles going back tothe earliest years of the printing press. Dr. Wheeler in turn do-nated the collection to the library of the American Institute ofElectrical Engineers (one of IEEE’s predecessors) in 1901, withcertain conditions: that it be properly cataloged and housed asa reference library available for all in New York City. Over the

LOCATING THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST : A RESEARCH REQUEST

During his brief visit to New Brunswick, Nipper consented to aphotograph with the available staff of the Center.

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NEW SEARCH ENGINE FOR GLOBAL HISTORY NETWORKReplacing 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 ofranked results. The major improvement over Sphinx, the previ-ous search engine installed on the GHN, is its advanced rele-vancy ranking capabilities. Lucene's ranking algorithm is basedon term proximity, relatedness, and anchor text, and allows fora far superior ranking to Sphinx. It also features an accentlesssearch, which allows the parsing of accented characters; for ex-ample if one searches for "Ampere", it will also recognize re-sults for "Ampère." Another useful feature of Lucene is that ithas a form of spellchecking; if one types in "transittor," it willsuggest "transistor" as a possible match. When the search re-sults are returned, the search engine will show the search termhighlighted within the context of the page.

IEEE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY VIDEOSSince November, sixteen VHS and U-matic tapes have been

digitized and posted on the Global History Network. These tapesinclude a number of programs related to IEEE Institutional His-tory, including a 1972 video for section leadership hosted by BillMiddleton, a 1987 overview of IEEE activities hosted by long-

years, AIEE came to share its headquartersbuilding in New York with other engineer-ing societies, first from 1907 in the Engi-neering Societies building on West 39th St.and—after 1961—in the United EngineeringCenter on East 47th St. The Wheeler Col-lection was incorporated into the Engineer-ing Societies Library, which became one ofthe largest technical libraries in the world,with not only historical material but a com-prehensive collection of relevant periodicalsand books.

Circumstances change, and by the early1990s the United Engineering Trustees, rep-resenting the component societies, decidedto close the library because of declining useand revenue. Responsibly, they sought outother libraries that might be able to take thecontents of the library so that material wouldcontinue to be available for use. They chosethe Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. ButWheeler’s original deed of gift mandatedthat his donation be kept intact in New York City, or else begiven back to his descendants. Thus, disposal of this part of thelibrary required the approval of the Attorney General of theState of New York, acting on behalf of the New York StateSupreme Court. So a solution had to be found that would sat-isfy the state. Fortunately, there was an appropriate institution,

with major rare book holdings, in the city—the New York Public Library. The NYPL wasinterested, so the United Engineering Librarystaff separated the contents of the Wheelercollection from the rest of the library, andthe United Engineering Trustees and IEEEdonated the collection to the Rare BooksDivision of the New York Public library in1995, where it can be found today.

Hochheiser checked the History Cen-ter’s copy of the original 1909 printed catalogfor the Wheeler gift, and indeed found listedas item #146, Robert Boyle, The ScepticalChymist, London, 1661. He also found thebook in listed in the “Survey of the WheelerGift” prepared in 1986 by the IEEE HistoryCenter. He suggested to Girolami that thebook should be in the Rare Books Divisionof the New York Public Library.

Girolami contacted the New York Pub-lic Library, which responded that indeedthey had the book. They enclosed several

photographs of the front of the book, including one with thebook plate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Intotal, Girolami’s census of The Sceptical Chymist now includesfifty-five copies with verified locations, a number he notes is “farfewer than is characteristic of other well-known science booksfrom the period.“

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time Executive Director Eric Herz, and a taped debate of the1996 IEEE Presidential candidates. These videos, in addition tothe remainder of the video collection, can be viewed here:http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Archives:Videos

LIFE MEMBER LEGACIESIn the 1980s and early 1990s, the IEEE Life Member Fund

Newsletter invited any interested Life Member to submit theirlife story for publishing. Over 200 first hand accounts from IEEELife Members were collected and published in the 1994 bookLegacies. The IEEE History Center has digitized these stories andposted 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 HISTORIES2012 marked the 50th year of IEEE in its current incarnation,

and as a token of recognition, all IEEE Members who have been acontinuous member since 1963 were awarded a 50 Year Memberpin, and invited to submit their stories to the IEEE Global HistoryNetwork. Over the course of 2012, the IEEE History Center collectedand posted 63 of these First Hand Histories on the Global HistoryNetwork. The History Center is still accepting submissions for 50Year Member’s First Hand Histories, which can be sent through thewebsite, through email or as a hard copy through the mail.

To view the Life Member Legacy First Hand Histories andthe 50 Year Member First Hand Histories, or to submit yourown, please visit the First Hand Histories landing page:http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:FirstHandHistories

AIChE, AIME, ASCE, ASME and IEEE, collectively known the“founding engineering societies” (of the U.S) have each recog-nized the importance of raising public awareness of the role ofengineering in society; improving technological literacy amongthe citizens of an increasingly technologically-based society; andenhancing the image of the engineer in order to improve themorale of the profession; and to attract the best and brightestyoung people to its ranks. At least implicitly, and in most casesexplicitly, all recognize that the histories of their organizations,their members, their professions, and the related technologiesplay a key role in this public visibility and outreach effort. IEEE,ASCE, and ASME have active standing history and heritage com-mittees. AIChE defers much of its historical activity to the Chem-ical Heritage Foundation, which was once a cooperative venturewith the American Chemical Society but is now a stand-aloneorganization. All of the founding societies also recognize that,in outreach to the general public, the public does not make dis-tinctions between different branches of engineering.

Of the founding societies, IEEE has the largest history op-eration and the most cutting-edge web presence, the IEEEGlobal History network (GHN; see pp. 4-5 for an update).

Therefore, the IEEE History Center approached the United En-gineering Foundation (UEF) that represents the founding soci-eties about supporting a workshop to bring together all of thefounding societies to discuss cooperative historical activity, andespecially the idea of using the GHN as a joint platform. TheUEF granted our request. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whilenot supplying funds at this time, also endorsed the concept.

The workshop was held at the IEEE Operations Center on4 and 5 February 2013. In attendance were: seventeen volun-teer and staff representatives of IEEE (including History Com-mittee Chair Lyle Feisel), AIChE, AIME, ASCE, ASME, SPE, andSWE; Dennis Martenson, President of UEF; and an outside fa-cilitator. The workshop produced an overwhelming consensusthat the societies should collaborate more closely in their his-torical activities, particularly with regards to web presence, andthat the IEEE Global History Network (GHN) is an outstandingplatform that should form the core of the new site. The partic-ipants agreed to form a consortium to more specifically envisionthe combined site and to approach the UEF for implementa-tion funding. Stay tuned for exciting further developments!

MULTISOCIETY WORKSHOP

THANK YOU TOOURHISTORY CENTER

DONORS!Your support helps preserve theheritage of IEEE’s technologies.

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The Antique Wireless Museum will be re-opening at its new lo-cation on August 20, 2013, in conjunction with the 2013 An-tique Wireless Association World Convention. The conventionwill be held August 20-24, 2013, at the Rochester Institute of

Technology Conference Center in Henrietta, New York. TheAntique Wireless Museum is located nearby in Bloomfield,

New York. The dual themes of this year’s convention are the“GRAND RE-OPENING” of the museum and “HEATHKIT.”

The Antique Wireless Association preserves and shares thehistory of the technologies used for communication and enter-tainment. These include electrical science, telegraph and wiredcommunication, wireless, radio, television, and cellular tech-

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MILESTONES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EXPANDS PRO-GRAMTO NEW COUNTRIES DURING 2012

The IEEE Milestones Program saw milestones dedicated in twoadditional countries, recognizing the important achievementsmade in those places. There were two milestones dedicated inIndia — Bose’s Millimeter Wave Experiments and The Raman Ef-fect — which were the first IEEE Milestones dedicated in thatcountry. Uruguay also dedicated its first Milestone: the Rincondel Bonete hydroelectric plant. In addition, the IEEE Boston Sec-tion hosted a bravura celebration of three Milestone dedicationsat once during the June IEEE Board of Directors meeting series.

Field Effect Electron Microscope, 31 January 2012 (R10 – Tokyo)

G3 Facsimile, 5 April 2012 (R10 – Tokyo Section)

Low Loss Optical Fiber, 1 May 2012 (R1– Photonics Society)

B&O Railroad electrification 21 June 2012 (R2 – Baltimore Section)

LORAN, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)

Whirlwind Computer 27 June 2012 (R1– Boston Section)

SAGE system, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)

First Reliable HV Fuse, 3 August 2012 (R4 – Chicago Section)

Floating Gate EEPROM, 21 August 2012 (R6, Santa Clara ValleySection)

Bose experiments in radio, 15 September 2012 (R10 – CentralIndia)

Raman Effect, 15 September 2012 (R10 – Central India Section)

Bar Code, 22 October 2012 (R2 Philadelphia Section)http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:Birthplace_of_the_Bar_Code,_1948

First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 26 October 2012,Photonics Society http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:First_Optical_Fiber_Laser_and_Amplifier

Rincon del Bonete [LF] (R9 – Uruguay Section)http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:Rincon_del_Bonete_Hydroelectric_Plant_and_Transmission_System

For more information on the IEEE Milestones Program,including a list of all dedicated milestones in chronologicalorder, as well as information on proposing technicalachievements as milestones, we invite you to visit theIEEE Global History Network’s Milestone page athttp://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Milestones

Continuing our efforts in pre-university social studies education,on 8 February Center staff members Michael Geselowitz andJohn Vardalas presented an all-day workshop to twelve NewJersey High school history teachers. Once again teaming withthe Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis’ Institutefor High School Teachers, the staff’s topic was the interplayamong the technology of timekeeping, other technologies, andother human activities throughout world history, from Stone-henge to the sundial to the Seiko Spring Drive Watch. The ed-

ucators learned how to integrate this important technologicalarea into their teaching of history, and worked with the HistoryCenter to produce corresponding curricular material to be madeavailable to instructors around the world through the EducationPortal on the IEEE Global History network. The feedback fromthe teachers shows that this continues to be an important re-source for them, and we will be exploring converting the work-shops into webinars which could be delivered around theglobe.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME…KEEPING

MILESTONES

THINGS TO SEE AND DO

ANTIQUEWIRELESSMUSEUM 2013 GRANDRE-OPENING&CONVENTION

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nologies. Founded in 1952, AWA is theoldest and largest U.S. organization ofits kind with an international member-ship of approximately two thousandcollectors, academics, and historians ofall ages and walks of life.

The Antique Wireless Museum islocated in Bloomfield, New York, U.S.A.near Rochester. The collections repre-sent the past 150 years of scientific andtechnological development of elec-tronic communications and containmore than 25,000 artifacts and morethan 150,000 vacuum tubes. AWA’snew three-building campus includesthe museum, the Max Bodmer Library and Media Center, and arestoration center and exhibit-construction facility. Future plansfor the Museum include the installation of a new theater andfurther development of exhibits and programs. The Museum

library contains more than 200,000books, catalogues, magazines, rare doc-uments, slides and photographs, and itis the depository for the 100-year histor-ical archive of the Radio Club of America.

2013 CONVENTION – The AWA An-nual World Convention offers approxi-mately 500 participants four-and-a-halfdays of total immersion in telegraph,wireless, and radio history, includingpresentations and seminars, historicaldisplays featuring rare equipment arti-facts and documentation, a book fair,flea market, and banquet.

Visit www.antiquewireless.orgfor more information about AWA including a membership ap-plication. The dedicated website www.awamuseum.org in-cludes information about the 2013 Convention and Museumgrand reopening.

In the city that never sleeps, it makes sense that a museumshould never close. The National Museum of Mathematics, orMoMath, the latest addition to such offerings in New York City,opened 15 December 2012. Founder Glen Whitney—a logician-turned-hedge-fund-analyst who wanted to give back to societysome of what he’s earned—and his associate director CindyLawrence, along with Tim Nissen, created a showcase to pro-mote the fun and excitement of mathematics. Ten days afterMoMath opened, IEEE History Center Outreach Historian AlexMagoun, CUNY mathematics instructor Hong Yuan, their 12-year-old son, and Magoun’s mother paid it a visit.

Even on a holiday, the two-story (Floors 0 and -1) facilityfacing Madison Square Park was packed at midday. In keepingwith current understanding about the preferences of most mu-seum visitors, there is no sequence to follow, and minimal ex-planation on exhibit labels. Unlike formal mathematics, onedoes not need to learn from a simpler exhibit to engage a moresophisticated one. The museum’s charge is to “stimulate in-quiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics,”and many of the activities accomplished at least one of thoseobjectives within or beyond the target audience of 8- to 12-yearold children.

We descended to Floor -1 to try the Math Square, “a goodpuzzle” per Alex’s son, which used LEDs to engage people ingraph theory, albeit without telling them: how do you get to theend of a maze without taking a left turn? The Enigma Café fea-tured a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional puzzles thatwere hugely popular with older children. Feedback Fractals of-fered an infinite mirror using three cameras and four screens,while the fractal Human Tree station based on Microsoft’sKinect motion-sensing input device led the oldest visitor—a for-

mer gardener—to try generating a conifer from her wheelchairinstead of the deciduous trees typically produced. A shapechanging display introduced the concept of limits by challeng-ing users to maximize the area inside various regular polygons,which would have been better if the computer recognized allfour given shapes.

On the ground, or 0, Floor, the String Product Times Tablefeatures eighty-one electroluminescent rope lines connected toten rings, demonstrating another way of thinking about whatwe traditionally associate with a two-dimensional matrix. TheInstitute of Creative Problem Solving provided the “Tracks ofGalileo,” where one can adjust the slope of two rails to test thelaw of inertia. Kx Systems, an applied mathematics softwarecompany owned by Whitney’s brother, contributed Sixth Sense,which uses a programmed matrix of Nixie tubes to predict thesum of six numbers chosen by a visitor. As the mathematicsinstructor noted, there was no explanation of this example ofnumber theory. An interactive Formula Morph display lets visi-tors set and adjust parameters to Klein bottles, ChmutovSurfaces, etc., and view the results onscreen. Besides the pro-grams, there are physically-realized mathematics in the tricyclewith square wheels that rides on a series of catenary curves,and the Hyper Hyperboloid, where someone rotating a chaircontrols the angles of two sets of colored ropes encircling it.

MoMath can be recommended for all ages regardless ofinterests or talents. By the time of publication, the exhibits la-beled “Problem Solving in Progress: Solution Underway” shouldbe operational. National Museum of Mathematics, 11 East 26thStreet, New York, NY 10010, www.momath.org 212 542-0566,10 AM - 5 PM, daily.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS, NEW YORK, NY

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2012 IEEE LIFEMEMBERS’PRIZE PAPERAWARDWINNER ISBERNARDGEOGHEGAN

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) has awardedthe 2012 IEEE Life Member Prize Paper award to Bernard Diony-sius Geoghegan. Geoghegan won for his paper “From Infor-mation Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss and theCybernetic Approach,” published in Critical Inquiry volume 38(Autumn 2011). The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical His-tory, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and adminis-

tered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awardedannually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer sci-ence—published during the preceding year. Any articlepublished in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art orengineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners.

L. Dennis Shapiro, IEEE Life Fellow,joined IEEE in 1951.

Dennis grew up wanting to be anElectrical Engineer. When he was astudent he joined the Institute ofRadio Engineers and the American In-stitute of Electrical Engineers beforethey merged in 1963 to form IEEE. Hecontinued membership because hewas proud of his profession, as repre-sented by IEEE, and wanted to supportits programs. Dennis feels that thegreatest benefit of IEEE membershipwas the publication of technical papersin his earlier years and elevation to Fel-low recently, which he says is his fond-est IEEE memory.

When Dennis was elevated to LifeMember his IEEE dues were waived, as they are for all IEEE LifeMembers. It opened up his thinking, he said, “perhaps it is timeto give back to the organization that helped me to develop myprofessional skills, to achieve personal success and to do workbenefitting millions of elderly people with Lifeline Systems, Inc.”Throughout the years Dennis belonged to a number of IEEE So-cieties and attended some conferences, but he became moreactive recently. In 2006, while attending the Consumer Elec-tronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, USA, he became aware of the In-ternational Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), aconference sponsored by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Soci-ety (CE Society), of which he had been a member of for manyyears. He attended ICCE and became acquainted with the CESociety leaders. Realizing that there was no CE Society chapterin Boston, he set out to establish one, which was accomplishedin September 2011. He became more active with the CE Soci-ety and was asked to join the Administrative Committee as VPIndustrial Relations in 2013. “I believe that a healthy organiza-tion is important for a healthy profession, and I want to do my

part,” Dennis said about his participation in IEEE activities.The impact Dennis had on IEEE did not stop there. Dennis

recently made donations to the three IEEE Foundation heldFunds of the IEEE History Center: the IEEE History Center Fund,the IEEE History Center Oral Histories Fund and the IEEE HistoryCenter Endowment Fund. When asked why he directed his sup-port to those funds Dennis said, “I feel that much of the wisdomin electrical engineering is in its history. Learning about howtechnology was discovered or invented and applied historicallycan be helpful in creating new technologies for the future.Knowing about individuals who are role models will inspirenew engineers for generations to come.”

Dennis feels that it is important for IEEE members to sup-port the IEEE Foundation because, “the Foundation's programsof education, inspiration and preservation serve IEEE, its mem-bers and the public to better know, understand and appreciatethe importance of the profession and the opportunities it bringsto our youth and our world,” he said.

The IEEE History Center relies on donations to maintain andexpand its programs. You can support the IEEE History Centerby making a donation online at www.ieee.org/donate.You may direct your gift to the IEEE History Center Fund of theIEEE Foundation.

DONOR HIGHLIGHT: PERHAPS IT IS TIMETO GIVE BACKDONORS AND SUPPORTERS

“much of thewisdom inelectrical

engineeringis in its history”

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2012 DONOR LISTIEEE History Center Preservationists Circle

Recognizing donors who have made significantcontributions to the History Center at crucial stagesin its founding and development.

IEEE Antennas and Propagation SocietyIEEE Circuits and Systems SocietyIEEE Communications SocietyIEEE Denver SectionIEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility SocietyIEEE FoundationIEEE IncorporatedIEEE Life Members CommitteeIEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques SocietyIEEE Power Engineering SocietyIEEE Electron Devices SocietyIEEE Power Engineering SocietyIEEE Signal Processing SocietyIEEE Solid-State Circuits SocietyIEEE Laser and Optics Society

IEEE Magnetics SocietyIEEE Signal Processing SocietyIEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

Laurence R. AvinsEarl BakkenPaul and Evelyn Baran FundFrank A. BrandMichael D. BrownJohn Bryant*Central Japan RailroadCentral Research Institute of the Electric Power IndustryJules Cohen, P.E.Lawrence H. CrooksCharles A. Eldon*Electric Power Development Corporation, TokyoElectro-Mechanics CompanyThe Elias Family in Memory of Peter Elias*The Gerald and Thelma Estrin Living TrustGE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd.

IBM CorporationDon H. Johnson, Ph.D.Joseph Keithley*Susumu KobayashiHarold. W. LordJohn MeggittJohn K. MenoudakosNECNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)Jun-ichi NishozawaThomas F. Peterson, Jr.Emerson and Elizabeth Pugh Fund of the Fidelity FundEmerson W. PughTheodore S. Saad*SematechTakashi SugiyamaTokyo Electric Power CompanyTopol Family Fund at the Boston FoundationToshiba CorporationRudolf A. WassmerYokogawa Electric Company

Leader($10,000 to $24,999)Vadasz FamilyFoundation

Leslie Vadasz

Patron($5,000 to $9,999)IEEE Signal ProcessingSociety

Deke Williams

Associate($2,500 to $4,999)John W. & LorraineMeredith

L. Dennis ShapiroThe Arzak FoundationKiyo Tomiyasu

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This monograph provides achronological account ofhow a fledgling research lab-oratory, which evolved fromthe MIT Radiation Labora-tory and the Harvard RadioResearch Laboratory afterWorld War II, rose to be-come one of the premier re-search laboratories in theworld. It contains extensiveprimary documents (letters,faxes, emails) of interest tothe historian.

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KAISER,DAVID, editorBecoming MIT: Moments of Decision,MIT Press, 2012

2011 marked the 150thanniversary of the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, arguably the best knowninstitution of technoscientifichigher learning in the world.At the time we reviewed an“unofficial” biography of MITfounder William BartonRogers, and wrote about thelong-term connections be-tween MIT and IEEE. Nowwe have an opportunity toreview an “official” book thatcame out of the celebra-tions, which has just beenreprinted in paperback.

As explained in the introduction, this is not meant to be asurvey history of MIT (at fewer than 200 pages, how could it be?),but rather a collection of eight essays about particular moment’sin MIT’s history that were affected by, and in turn had impact onboth American society and global technology and education.Therefore, one will miss some of one’s favorites—no entries in theindex for Jerry Lettvin or hacking—while each chapter may seem atfirst 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 developmentof 20th century technology, and each contribution is worth reading

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in its own right. At the same time, remarkably, taken together, theessays give a good picture of the development of MIT. The volumealso wrestles honestly with some of MIT’s political and social chal-lenges, such as its role as a major military contractor during theCold War, and the dearth of women in its ranks. It is well worthreading.

Available from The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 800-358-0343,fax: +1 617-625-6660, http://mitpress.mit.edu, paper, $14.95,ISBN 978-0-262-51815-4 (original hardcover, 2010, $29.95, ISBN978-0-262-11323-6), 199 pp., index, 40 illus.

NAHIN, PAUL J.,The Logician and the Engineer: How George Booleand Claude Shannon Created the Information Age,Princeton University Press, 2013

Nahin’s fascinating bookshows the historical con-nections between the sys-tem of algebra developedin the late 1840s and early1850s by George Boole,the papers on informationtheory published byClaude Shannon in thelate 1940s and early1950s, and the way theideas in those publica-tions govern the opera-tions of electronic circuitsthereafter.

The book begins with ashort biography each ofBoole and Shannon, fol-lowed by a chapter onBoolean Algebra, a chap-ter on Logical SwitchingCircuits; Boole, Shannon

and Probability; Some Combinatorial Logic Examples; Sequential-State Digital Circuits; Turing Machines, and concludes with a chap-ter “Beyond Boole and Shannon.”

Shannon was particularly interested in probabilities of failurein relays, and the chapter “Boole, Shannon, and Probability” showshow Shannon’s work is used in the design of reliable relays. “Com-binatorial Logic Examples” shows how Shannon’s logic is used todetermine channel capacity and to detect and correct errors ininformation transmission.

In addition to the history, the book is full of logical puzzles toengage 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 ofModern India: Jagadis Chandra Bose by VisvapriyaMukherji ISBN 978-81-230-1611-5 has been published bythe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Governmentof Inda, http://publicationsdivision.nic.in A pioneer ofmicrowave physics, J.C. Bose is remembered for hismillimeter wave communications experiments.

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The innovative spirit and creative energy of BellLabs during the directorship of William Bakerare described in this new book by twelve peo-ple who worked there. The first-hand accountsare by: John Pierce, father of communicationssatellites; Manfred Schroeder, speech encoding;Walter Brown, developer of silicon semicon-ductors; Carol Maclennan, computers and theUlysses spacecraft; Alan Chynoweth, materialsresearch, David Dorsi, expert glassblower; Ed-ward Zajac, submarine cables and economicsresearch; Edwin Chandross, optical memoriesand organic materials (inventor of the nowubiquitous light stick); Italo Quinto, chauffer toWilliam Baker; Mohan Sondhi, inventor of theadaptive echo canceller; William Keefauver, BellLabs’ general patent attorney; and lastly,William Baker himself. Through their eyes andwords, the culture of Bell Labs comes to life.

The research done at Bell Labs led to manydevices and techniques that helped build ourpresent world. Acoustic cameras, adaptive pre-dictive coding, block diagram compilers, cryp-tography, diamond crystal research, digitalcommunication, echo research, inverse filtering,light-emitting diodes (LEDs), magnetic bubblememories, microwaves, organic field effecttransistors, pulse code modulation, syntheticspeech, transistors, traveling-wave tubes, andvocoders are among the topics recalled by thecontributors to this book.

BELL LABS MEMOIRS:VOICES OF INNOVATION

published by the IEEE History Center

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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