EMC society history
Daniel David Hoolihan · IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine · 2016
Presents an introduction to three articles in this isue of the pulication that addresses the history of the IEEE EMC Society. The first article is the “EMC Legacy II Smart Drives and Xplore access to IEEE International EMC Symposiums.” This article formally announces the release of EMC Legacy II material which covers the IEEE International Symposiums on EMC from 1964 -1999. The second article addresses the attempt to “mine” the late Dick Ford’s library of EMC technical records for “nuggets” of historical material important to the EMC Society. This is the fifth important person of the EMC Society to pass away where the EMC Society History committee got involved with the records of a significant individual in the history of the EMC Society. The third article is the traditional “50-25-10 Years Ago: A Review of EMC Society Newsletters” which covers Issue No. 46 (November – 1966), Issue No. 151 (Fall – 1991), and Issue No. 211 (Fall – 2006). Enjoy the stories and news from past EMC Society Newsletters! and the fourth article is a special look at a famous figure in our EMC Society History, Carl Baum. Carl was famous in the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) arena of EMC technology and his professional relationship with David Giri, another famous EMP engineer, is outlined in the article.