Centennial Celebration

In preparation for the scheduled special events of 2012, Proceedings Editorial Office has begun the posting of classic papers by some of the luminaries of the past, along with special introductions on Proceedings Web pages. This will continue from 2011 to 2012.

• Read the featured classic paper of the month
• View the classic papers posting schedule

In addition, the IEEE History Center is partnering with the journal to provide a monthly review of important technological events of the past 100 years with some insight into the personalities that helped to shape the past century of technical innovation and progress, with heavy emphasis on the journal's very rich content

A Centennial Special Issue was published in May 2012, in honor of the founding and election of officers of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), a predecessor engineering societies, on 13 May 1912. 

The Centennial Special Issue is now available to all readers on IEEE Xplore so that the wider IEEE and engineering communities can participate in our Centennial Celebration and have an opportunity to sample some of the diverse topics that are routinely covered each month in this journal.

Read highlights of the issue

View the complete issue on Xplore

Plans are currently underway to hold a Engineering Innovation Forum in Washington D.C. on 28 and 29 September, 2012. The general theme of this forum will be: improving quality of life through engineering innovations.

The forum will be comprised of globally recognized leaders from each of the following subject areas:

1. new perspectives on education, innovation, and entrepreneurship;
2. integration and synergy of nano-bio-info-congno (NBIC) technologies;
3. advancing the frontiers in energy and sustainability engineering;
4. exploring the link between art and media engineering with entertainment;
5. shaping the future of healthcare engineering and informatics;
6. advances in wireless communication and networking;
7. next generation computation and computational intelligence;
8. earth, subsea, and space exploration.

The Proceedings Editorial Board is organizing a Future Technology Predictions event, which will be open to all IEEE members.

Participants are asked to exercise both their imaginations as well as their technological predictive powers to outline future technological trends and evolutions, as they personally see them developing over the next 20, 50, or even 100 years. The request, however, is that they not only describe the expected device or innovation but also provide a road map as to how the breakthroughs described will be achieved.