HISTELCON is an IEEE Region 8 conference held approximately every two years, covering topics in the area of Technology History. The first HISTELCON was in September 2008, in Paris, France, with the theme “History of Telecommunications” and including topics in the history of electrical and information technologies. Subsequent HISTELCONs were in Madrid, Spain (2010), Pavia, Italy (2012), Tel-Aviv, Israel (2015), and in August 2017 in Kobe, Japan.

HISTELCON 2019 will be in the IEEE UK and Ireland Section, in Glasgow, Scotland. The proposed primary theme is ‘historic computers’ with an aim to include papers on those inventions and developments which have not already been the subject of extensive historical publications, and to include the contribution special purpose processors have made to the development and use of advanced digital signal processing methods in many applications areas.

In accordance with the traditions of previous HISTELCONs, the conference will include invited keynote lectures as well as submitted, reviewed contributions. Authors of papers presented at the conference may be invited to submit an extended or revised version for further review and consideration for submission to IEEE Xplore.

Among the computer topics which might be included are, for examples, the history of the F100L and the Viper microprocessor, the Mascot real-time software design method, the Transputer, the ARM computer designs, and the impact of digital signal processing microprocessors including the TMS 320 for the implementation of very sophisticated signal processing algorithms.

Venue: Technology and Innovation Centre, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, 18-19 September 2019

More Information at: https://www.histelcon2019.org/

The IEEE HISTELCON (HISTory of ELectrotechnology CONference) is a flagship biennial-conference of the IEEE Region 8, this time the IEEE Japan Council History Committee will host HISTELCON 2017, the 5th in its series (after HISTELCON 2008 in Paris, HISTELCON 2010 in Madrid, HISTELCON 2012 in Pavia, and HISTELCON 2015 in Tel Aviv), which will be held on August 7-8, 2017, at the Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, in Kobe, Japan, and cosponsored by all of nine IEEE Sections in Japan and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Region 8.

The main objective of HISTELCON 2017 is to increase the understanding of the origins as well as the early developments of high-tech within IEEE’s areas of interest. HISTELCON 2017 welcomes all papers on the history of high-tech in electrical engineering and computing, featuring the historic expertise of any scientific and technological achievement, which has already been approved as an IEEE Milestone or may be a possible candidate for the IEEE Milestone.

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2017; Early Registration: 7 May 2017.

More Information at: http://www.ieee-jp.org/section/kansai/histelcon2017/