Nikola Tesla and Electric Dream Expo
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe marked Nikola Tesla’s 161st birthday and the 100th anniversary of the dismantling of his famous wireless transmitter by hosting a…
Pulse
Autonomous Vehicles: not so fast
The Long Island Consultants Network (LICN), an affinity group within the IEEE, holds monthly meetings that are usually devoted to lectures on technical topics that…
Refer a Colleague, Get Great Merchandise
Have you encouraged someone who has your interest in advancing technology to join IEEE? Now is a great time to do so. Refer a colleague to…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – June 2017
Image credit (Editor): Computer History Museum; 1986: IBM releases the first commercial RISC-based workstation – The IBM PC-RT had 1 MB of RAM, a 1.2-megabyte…
Chair’s message, June 2017
Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to report that we are starting another round of volunteer solicitation to feel the officers position for the Long Island…
Call for IEEE Long Island Officer 2018 Nominations
Dr. Marjaneh Issapour, the Chair of the IEEE Long Island section, announced the Call for Nominations for the Section’s 2018 officer positions is now open,…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – May 2017
1953: the year we became the IRE Long Island Section One of our members, Mort Hans, sent me a list (see below) of well-known engineering…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – April 2017
We continue to look at highlights from issues of the Pulse from over 30 years ago. We started with 1981 two years ago and are…
Chair’s message, April 2017
We have started the new year 2017 with a lot of enthusiasm and innovative plans. Our primary objective is to make the Section effective and…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – March 2017
We will resume our look at early issues of Pulse to note some of the significant events of past years. We start with the May…