Travel Support for the IEEE 2001 Conference on the History of Telecommunications, St. John's, Newfoundland

Institute Of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway NJ

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Abstract

This award provides a travel grant to assure that approximately nine U.S. historians of all levels who have appropriate interest in and knowledge of the History of Telecommunications will have an opportunity to attend a conference on the history of telecommunications to be held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's 25 -27 July 2001. The conference is organized by The IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University. The grantees will be chosen by the Program Committee on the basis of merit from among those eligible participants registering for the workshop. As telecommunications become ever more important economically, politically, and socially, it is important to understand better their historical development. The conference will bring together both engineers and historians for two and a half days of paper presentations and discussions, shared breakfasts and lunches, and optional evening activities and excursions.