Summer is a slow time of the year, but a few IEEE meetings are taking place.

3: 1875: Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson transmit first speech sounds electrically.
11: 2008 IEEE President-Elect candidates debate in Philadelphia.
12 to 17: IEEE organizational units meet in Philadelphia.
14: 1951: First commercial computer, UNIVAC I, put into service by the U.S. Census Bureau.
15: 1752: Benjamin Franklin proves theory that lightning and electricity are related.
17: 1928: Amelia Earhart, as a passenger, becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
21: 1948: The Manchester University Mark I prototype becomes the first stored-program computer to execute a program successfully.
30: 1961: Lee de Forest, inventor of the three-element vacuum tube, dies in California.
1: Nominations due for IEEE medals, corporate recognitions, honorary memberships, service awards, and prize papers.
2: 1928: W3XK, the first U.S. television station, starts transmitting.
6: 1924: The Radio Corporation of America demonstrates its new method for sending facsimile images by radio.
10: 1962: Telstar, the first active communications satellite, is launched.
12: 2001: A Web worm infects Microsoft Internet information servers, one of the most costly computer attacks.
13 to 14: Region 5 (Southwestern United States) Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) training workshop, in Dallas.
15: 1965: NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 flies past Mars and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the planet.
16: 1906: Willis Carrier files for a patent for a control system that regulates temperature and humidity, the forerunner of air conditioning.
18: 1968: Gordon Moore [left] and Robert Noyce start up Intel Corp. in Mountain View, Calif.
20: 1969: Buzz Aldrin [right] and Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
29: 1958: NASA is established.
31: 1964: Ranger 7, a 2.4-meter-tall unmanned lunar module, transmits pictures of the moon’s surface.
2: 1927: The concept of the negative feedback amplifier comes to Harold Black.
3: 1976: Viking 1 sends back its first photos of Mars.
6: 1926: Western Electric and Bell Labs, along with Warner Bros. and Vitaphone, show first commercial sound movie.
9 to 11: Region 1 (Northeastern United States) summer meeting in Burlington, Vt.
12: 1981: IBM announces a 16-bit personal computer, which quickly becomes a best seller.
14: 1959: The Explorer 6 satellite conducts the first telecast from space.
17 to 18: Region 9 (Latin America) TISP training workshop in Rio de Janeiro.
24: 1995: Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system gets the most publicized software release ever.
29: 1831: Michael Faraday records his discovery of electromagnetic induction, considered the invention of the transformer.