2001 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications

The 2001 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications (CHT2001) was the fourth in a series of workshops sponsored by the IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University. The profound role telecommunications has had in shaping the modern world made this an important topic of historical study!

This workshop was held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada. This was an ideal site for such as meeting. It was here on 12 December 1901 that Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal. 27 July 2001 was the 135^th anniversary of the landing of the first transatlantic cable at Heart's Content in Newfoundland. These are both IEEE Milestones! Click on the topics above for more information!

A total of 27 papers were submitted for this conference, of which 18 are available on line.

In 2001 a special feature was added to the workshop, a worldwide Student History Paper Contest. A grant from the IEEE Foundation made it possible to provide travel funds for the winners of the contest. Additional funds for the conference were supplied by the National Science Foundation.  The five papers, presented in a poster session are also available online.