The Big Family of IEEE

The IEEE is the largest scientific Society in the world, representing the scientific and Technical community of Electrical and Electronic and Computer Science engineers, totaling 460,000 members distributed almost equally among Universities, Research Centers and Companies. The IEEE publishes 180 scientific Journals and Magazines, runs 650 international conferences each year, and is present in virtually any Country of the world through a number of Section, Chapters, and Student Branches. In this talk a short history of the IEEE will be presented, starting from the pioneers Volta, Ampere, Faraday, Ohm, Maxwell, Pacinotti, and Marconi, to the Founders Edison and Bell, then to give an insight to the territorial and specialty organization, and to the Italy Section formed in 1958 by Mario Chou the inventor of the first Olivetti computer.