#Computers at work 1990s pro
#Computers at work 1990s professional

The magazine was formerly known as IEEE Computational Science & Engineering.By Ilya Pestov How PCs were advertised in the 1990s Computing in Science & Engineering is launched with the American Institute of Physics as its co-publisher. IEEE Expert is renamed IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications. IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology is renamed IEEE Concurrency.

IEEE Internet Computing begins publication. IEEE 802.11 becomes an official international standard. The Computer Society Digital Library is introduced.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics is introduced. IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology is launched. IEEE begins publishing IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ( Annals was formerly published by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies starting in 1979). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is jointly launched with the IEEE Communications Society and ACM SIGCOM. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems is launched.

We still held large international conferences with thousands of attendees, the most notable of which were SC (formerly Supercomputing), International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPPS), International Test Conference (ITC), and Visualization (VIS). We sponsored or co-sponsored about 125 each year, with 143 Computer Society meetings in 1999. The number of conferences sponsored by the Society also grew rapidly. Over many years of hard work starting in 1990, the wireless standards working group made it an official international standard in 1997. It had its origin in the late seventies proposed by a group of Computer Society volunteers working on the Ethernet standards, IEEE 802.3. The IEEE 802.11 became perhaps the most popular and well-known protocol of the industry. This decade also saw many accomplishments by the Computer Society Standards Activities.

#Computers at work 1990s professional

We closed out the decade with the launching of IT Professional in 1999 - a total portfolio of 24 periodicals. We introduced the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics in 1995 and IEEE Internet Computing in 1997. Subsequently, similar initiatives were also launched in Latin America (Region 9) and in China.Īs new areas in information processing were developed, the Society also added new journals to meet the demands for knowledge in these new subdisciplines, launching IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 1990 and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 1991, the latter jointly with the IEEE Communications Society and ACM SIGCOM. A special committee, the Central and Eastern European Initiatives Committee, was formed to promote such activities. With the opening of the Eastern European countries to the West, the Society rapidly revived its contacts with the national computer societies and established local chapters in that region. In addition to our headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the publication office in California, we had offices in Tokyo, Budapest, Moscow, and Beijing. The number of conferences sponsored by the Society also saw a rapid growth. Together with the industry it represents, the IEEE Computer Society celebrated its 50th anniversary and experienced unprecedented growth during the 1990s.

#Computers at work 1990s pro

Other highlights of the decade include the introduction of the Java programming language, the Intel Pentium Pro processor, Windows 95, and IBM’s Deep Blue beating Gary Kasmarov at chess. The first web browser, Mosaic, was created in the 1990s by students and staff at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing.