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 Society

1927

Telegraph and Telephone Society (established)

1937

Name changed to The Institute of Electrical Communication

1945

Computer (Neumann)

1948

Transistor (Shockley)
1950's

1967

Changed name to The Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers

1987

Name changed to Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

1995

Introduced Society System. Established by 4 societies and 1 group.

1995

Commercial Internet
2000's

2012

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (incorporated)

2014

NOLTA Society was established as the fifth society.

2017

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