The IEEE History Center Newsletter for July 2025 is available! The IEEE History Center newsletter is free to all individuals interested in technological history—whether engineers, scholars, researchers, hobbyists, or members of the general public with a passion for technological history. The new issue features articles on the Medal of Honor Wall of Fame and Life ...
This year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (VICS) Honors Ceremony took place at the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan, on April 23-24, 2025. Various IEEE Awards and Medal Winners were announced. During the event, Rajendra Asthana, 2025 Life Member Committee Chair and representatives from Math Works, presented the 2025 James H. Mulligan, Jr. ...
Adewumi Damilola Adebayo from York University won the 2024 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize awarded by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for his paper “Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c. 1860s–1914,” Past & Present, no. XX (2023). Adewumi Damilola Adebayo develops an original perspective in a case study of ...
Bell Telephone Laboratories, originally a part of the AT&T Corporation and headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Jointly owned by AT&T and Western Electric, BTL was established in 1925, dedicated to science and communications research. Over the years, employees have helped earn 10 Nobel prizes, five Turing Awards for ...
The IEEE History Committee selected Michelle Spektor as the 2025 IEEE Life Members’ Fellow in Electrical History. Spektor's research focuses on Making Biometric Citizens: Technology and Power from the British Empire to the Digital Age. "States around the world are increasingly turning to biometric technologies to identify their citizens,” explained Spektor. “These technologies, which identify ...
