World Wide Web 20th Anniversary.

This is the year of important anniversaries. In March of 1989 famous now Tim Berners-Lee provided to his supervisor at the CERN office in Geneva a proposal for a multimedia distribution of documents simply entitled "Information Management: a proposal". This was the beginning of a new era. A transformation of human information gathering and distribution that has drastically influenced the way we communicate, learn, work and entertain. A copy of the original document can be found at: http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

125th Anniversary of IEEE

A special web page dedicated to the 125th anniversary of IEEE has been set up at http://www.ieee125.org/ .

IEEE history goes back to 1884 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) was founded. AIEE merged in 1963 with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) forming the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Today IEEE has over 365,000 members in 160 countries and produces 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields. It publishes more than 120 peer-reviewed journals, hundreds of conference proceedings, professional standards, and educational materials [1].

[1]. (2009) IEEE Today, http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/today/index.html

125th Anniversary of the Engineering Index (Ei)

Ei was founded in 1884 by Dr. John Butler Johnson, a professor of Civil Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1918, it was acquired by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1998, Ei was purchase by Elsevier. Known for several years as COMPENDEX, Ei is one of the most comprehensive databases for engineering information. Today, Compendex has over 11 million records. Source: "Ei History", Engineering Information. http://www.ei.org/evhistory