History
Towards 100 years of growth
IEICE is a Japan's largest international academic society in the fields of electronics, information, and communications.
IEICE was officially launched as the Telegraph and Telephone Society in May 1917. In May 2017, we celebrated our 100th anniversary.
As an international academic society in electronic information communication and related fields, the Society aim to contribute to the formation of a healthy communication society and the maintenance and improvement of a rich global environment by promoting academic development, industrial development and human resource development.
The IEICE will contribute working on activities of combining cross-cutting elements from multiple technological fields and establish new technological fields, to pioneer new fields and cultivate new human resource development which creates a paradigm shift.
History of the IEICE
Industry history
History of the IEICE
1800's
1836
Telegraph (Morse)1850's
1876
Telephone (Bell)1895
Wireless communication (Marconi)1900's
1917
Established as Telegraph and Telephone Society1927
Telegraph and Telephone Society (established)1937
Name changed to The Institute of Electrical Communication1945
Computer (Neumann)1948
Transistor (Shockley)1950's
1967
Changed name to The Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers1987
Name changed to Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers1995
Introduced Society System. Established by 4 societies and 1 group.1995
Commercial Internet2000's
2012
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (incorporated)2014
NOLTA Society was established as the fifth society.2017
100th anniversary