FINAL PROGRAM

Friday 8 September  – Morning

S8M1A – Science and Technology or Technology and Science? Part I

Friday 8 September – 9:10 – 10:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  David Michelson (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

09:10-09:30    Natasa Zivic (University of Applied Sciences Leipzig Leipzig, Germany)
A Picture is worth Thousand Words: from Camera Obscura to Corona Detection Microscopes [#0723]

09:30-09:50    Kartik Shreenath Bohra and Yoshita S Dharmadhikari (Electronic Products, The Boeing Company, Bangalore, India)
History of Fly by wire, The Tech That Expanded Human Horizons in Aviation [#1032]

09:50-10:10   Alessandro Russo, Alessandro Liberalato and Sergio Canazza (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Reactivation/virtualization of the CSC system at the University of Padua [#1053]

10:10-10:30    David Michelson (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
The Intermodal Surface Transportation  Efficiency Act of 1991 [#2145]

10:30-10:50   Massimo Guarnieri (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Evolutive waves in electrochemical batteries [#1874]

S8M1B – Museums and collections and new technologies for creating catalogues and exhibitions. Part I

Friday 8 September – 9:10 – 10:50 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs:  Antonio Savini (Research Centre for the History of Electrical Technology University of Pavia, Italy)
Amy Bix (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)

09:10-09:30    Hajime Akiyama and Takayuki Shiose (National Institute of Technology, Fukui College, Fukui, Japan)
A Brief History of the Development and Diffusion of Mercury Rectifiers in Japan [#1392]

09:30-09:50    Ruediger Hoffmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany)
The Historic Acoustic-Phonetic Collection of TU Dresden after Finishing the Catalogue [#2602]

09:50-10:10    Mario Casillo, Francesco Colace, Angelo Lorusso, Francesco Marongiu, Domenico Santaniello and Carmine Valentino (University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)
A novel architecture for enhancing museum visits through Recommender System, Digital Storytelling, and NFT [#3014]

10:10-10:30    Sasha Disko-Schmidt and Frank Dittmann (Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany)
Materializing the Dematerialized, or Thoughts on How to Exhibit Electricity Grids and Networks [#6059]

10:30-10:50    Mario Casillo, Liliana Cecere, Francesco Colace, Angelo Lorusso, Domenico Santaniello and Carmine Valentino (University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)
Exhibition spaces in the Metaverse: a novel design approach [#6197]

S8M1C – From the gigahertz dream to mobile wireless: how the seeds of 5G were planted

Friday 8 September – 9:10 – 10:50 Giotto room
Session Chairs:  Gino Masini (Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden)

09:10-09:30    Stefan Parkvall (Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden)
Mobile Telecoms from 1G to 5G [######]

09:30-09:50    Peter Kurz¹ and Hugo Wyss² (¹Patent Attorney, in EP, CH, DE Schaffhausen, Switzerland ; ²Chair of Switzerland Life Members Affinity Group Solothurn, Switzerland)
Scientists at war: A patent lawsuit relating to VLF wireless technology during World War I [#3035]

09:50-10:10    David Burigana and Alessandro Paccagnella (University of Padua Padua, Italy)
Cheap Eurochips. Electronics from the technological gap debate to the Common Market (1966-1987) [#4375]

10:10-10:30    Probir Bondyopadhyay (Forensic Historian of Science and Technology Houston, Texas, USA)
Hundredth Anniversary of Marconi’s Discovery of Daylight Waves [#6692]

10:30-10:50    Eyup Kagan Sahin (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
The Projection of Industry 5.0 [#2604]

S8M2A – Science and Technology or Technology and Science? Part II

Friday 8 September – 11:10 – 12:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  David Michelson (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

11:10-11:30    Enrico Bertolazzi¹, Cecilia Frego², Marco Frego³, Seyed Mohsen Hosseini³ and Angelika Peer³ (¹University of Trento, Trento, Italy; ²University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ³Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy)
The clothoid: a historical, literary and artistic introduction with applications to technology [#3272]

11:30-11:50    Josep Sunol, Francesc Miralles and Andreu Vea (Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain)
A Vision of Impact Through Technological Change from Institutional Logic: The Telefónica Case. [#4693]

11:50-12:10    Pierre-Yves Pièce (Bex, Switzerland)
Roland Pièce and the beginning of Radio Broadcasting in Switzerland [#7386]

12:10-12:30    Jean-Marc Ginoux¹ and Riccardo Meucci² (¹Aix Marseille Univ, Universit´e de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Marseille, France; ²National Institute of Optics – CNR Florence, Italy)
From the singing arc to the triode [#8595]

12:30-12:50    Probir Bondyopadhyay¹ and Lily Banerjee² (¹Forensic Historian of Science and Technology Houston, Texas, USA; ²Senior Research Associate, Houston, Texas, USA)
Alexander Graham Bell’s Pioneering Initiatives with Semiconductor Diode Detector of Wireless Waves [#8814]

S8M2B – Museums and collections and new technologies for creating catalogues and exhibitions. Part II

Friday 8 September – 11:10 – 12:50 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs:  Antonio Savini (Research Centre for the History of Electrical Technology University of Pavia, Italy)
Amy Bix (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)

11:10-11:30    Allison Marsh (University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA)
Engineering Objects: How Museums Shape the History We Tell [#8406]

11:30-11:50    Vasiliy Burov and Dmitry Soshnikov (Estonto Lab, Astana, Kazakhstan)
FidoNet and Generative AI: A New Approach to Museumification of Historical Content Resources [#9227]

11:50-12:10    Michael Geselowitz and Daniel Mitchell (IEEE History Center IEEE Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)
The IEEE Global Museum:  The role of professional associations in museums devoted to the history of technology [#9804]

12:10-12:30    Silvia Basaldella¹ and Amedeo Maddalena² (¹President of Associazione Culturale per il “Museo Didattico di Storia dell’informatica” Padua, Italy; ²Padua University, Padua Italy,)
The Collection of Computer History in Padua [#9922]

12:30-12:50   Stefano Maddio, Giuseppe Pelosi and Stefano Selleri (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
A Brief History of the Smith Chart [#0683]

S8M2C – Panel Meeting: Women step into technology: how it may change the hystory

Friday 8 September – 11:10 – 12:50 Giotto room
Organizers: Dajana Cassioli, Erika Pittella, Cristina Ponti (IEEE WIE Italy)
Moderators: Erika Pittella, Cristina Ponti (IEEE WIE Italy)

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11:10-11:15  Erika Pittella, Sapienza University of Rome, Cristina Ponti, Roma Tre University
Welcome

11:15-11:25   Margarida Trigo, IEEE WIE R8 committee member
IEEE R8 Women in Engineering: how to make a positive impact

11:25-11:45   Massimo Guarnieri, Chair of the History Committee of the IEEE Italy Section
Some facts on History Activities with a Glance at Notable Women in Science and Technology

11:45-12:30   Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich
Ultrafast lasers to inclusive empowerment: a 40-year journey

12:30-12:40   Tiziana Tambosso, IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordinator Committee Chair
IEEE and my professional career: synergies and motivations

12:40-12:50   Closing of the session

Friday 8 September  – Afternoon

S8A1A – High tech developments in the history of radio astronomy. Part I

Friday 8 September – 14:10 – 15:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  Pietro Bolli (INAF – Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy)
Luigina Feretti (INAF – Institute for Radioastronomy, Bologna, Italy)

14:10-14:30    Ronald D. Ekers¹ and Claire Hooker² (¹CSIRO Space & Astronomy, Sydney, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, e-mail)
The Parkes Radio Telescope: how technological developments have driven discoveries in Radio Astronomy [#4819]

14:30-14:50    Rustam Dagkesamanskii (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia)
Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory: shortly about history and instrumentation developement [#0114]

14:50-15:10    Yashwant Gupta (National Centre for Radio Astrophysic, Pune, India)
Technological Innovations and Historical Impact of the GMRT : a IEEE Milestone Facility [#415]

15:10-15:30    Leonid Gurvits (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands and Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands)
A Brief History of Space VLBI [#2518]

15:30-15:50    Germano Bianchi, Federico Perini and Giancarlo Setti (Institute of Radio Astronomy National Institute of Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy; University of Bologna Associate INAF-IR,Bologna, Italy)
A brief history of the Northern Cross Radio Telescope [#6655]

S8A1B – Humanistic Studies. Part I

Friday 8 September – 14:10 – 15:50 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs:  Fabio Grigenti (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Alessandro Paccagnella (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)

14:10-14:30    Probir Bondyopadhyay¹ and Pramita Banerjee² (¹Forensic Historian of Science and Technology, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Research Fellow, Houston, Texas, USA)
Liber Abaci (Modus Indorum) by Fibonacci – A Forensic Historian’s Tribute [#1492]

14:30-14:50    Amy Bix (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)
More Alike or Different? Comparing Historical Patterns of Women and Gender in Science vs. Technology [#4817]

14:50-15:10  Fabio Grigenti (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Is there such a thing as Techno-science? [#5861]

15:10-15:30    Michela Amendola¹, Donatella Lippi², Fabrizio Argenti², Roberto Carpi³, Costanza Cucci¹, Salima Ikram⁴, Guido Landi², Tommaso Mori², Alessandro Riga², Chiara Zini³ and Andrea Barucci¹ (¹Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” Italian National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; ²University of Florence, Florence, Italy; ³Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Florence, Italy; ⁴The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt)
Application of CT imaging to humanistic studies: the case of an Egyptian cat mummy [#6712]

15:30-15:50    Alexander Magoun (IEEE History Center IEEE Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)
A Brief Survey of Electronic Archaeology [#6910]

S8A1C – The Italian contribution to the progress in information and communication technologies

Friday 8 September – 14:10 – 15:50 Giotto room
Session Chairs:  Maurizio Decina (Polytecnic of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Gabriele Falciasecca (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

14:10-14:30    Paolo Bonavoglia (Mathesis Venezia, Venice, Italy)
Origins of modern cryptography and cryptanalysis [#9374]

14:30-14:50    Barbara Valotti¹ and Cristiano Passerini² (¹Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, ²Pontecchio Marconi Bologna, Italy; IEEE Member, Bologna, Italy)
Rescuing Lost Souls at Sea: Marconi’s Pivotal Role in the Birth of Public Protection and Disaster Relief [#3065]

14:50-15:10    Gabriele Falciasecca (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
The second wireless revolution: the conquest of high frequencies [#3853]

15:10-15:30    Marco Peroni¹, Fabrizio Frezza², Fiammetta Curcio³ and Giorgio Koch⁴ (¹Associazione Arma Aeronautica, Rome, Italy; ²“La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ³European Commission on local economic development issues, Roma, Italy; ⁴Università Mercatorum, Rome, Italy
Marconi’s last experiences on Radio Relay Links and their successive impact for the Italian Terrestrial  and Space Microwave Telecomunications development [#4432]

15:30-15:50   Marco Brancati and Antonio Saitto (Telespazio S.p.A., Rome, Italy)
The Telespazio adventure from Space to Earth [#9467]

S8A2Aa – High tech developments in the history of radio astronomy. Part II

Friday 8 September – 16:10 – 16:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  Pietro Bolli (INAF – Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy)
Luigina Feretti (INAF – Institute for Radioastronomy, Bologna, Italy)

16:10-16:30   Christopher Salter (Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico)
The Arecibo 305-m Telescope: 57 Years of Unprecedented Discovery [#7294]

16:30-16:50    Ralph Spencer (The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
The Role of Technology in the Development of Very Lomg Baseline Astronomy [#1769]

S8A2Ab – Humanistic Studies. Part II

Friday 8 September – 17:10 – 17:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  Fabio Grigenti (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Alessandro Paccagnella (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)

17:10-17:30    Jerzy Hickiewicz, Piotr Rataj and Przemysław Sadłowski (Historical Study Lab, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, Opole, Poland)
Lviv Roots of Polish Higher Educational Institutions in Electrical Engineering [#7081]

17:30-17:50    Paolo Di Barba and Roberto Galdi (University of Pavia Pavia, Italy)
The electrification of Italian railway network across the photographic archive of TIBB [#9162]

S8A2B – Big Companies

Friday 8 September – 16:10 – 17:50 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs:  Mary Ann Hellrigel (IEEE History Center IEEE Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)

16:10-16:30   Mitsuaki Oshima¹, Takayuki Hayashi¹, Shinichi Matsui¹, Masahiro Fukui² and Isao Shirakawa³ (¹Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Kadoma, Japan; ²Ritsumeikan University Kusatsu, Japan; ³University of Hyogo Kobe, Japan)
History of World’s First Commercialization of Image Stabilizers for Handheld Cameras [#2901]

16:30-16:50    David Michelson (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
The Trans-Canada Microwave System [#3340]

16:50-17:10    Thalita Nazaré and Erivelton Nepomuceno (Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland)
Tracing the Path: A Historical Perspective on Wind and Wave Energy’s Progress [#5503]

17:10-17:30    Mary Ann Hellrigel (IEEE History Center IEEE Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)
Landscapes of Technology (and some) Science: The AIEE and the Electrotechnical Community at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Fourth International Electrical Congress [#7307]

17:30-17:50    Massimo Guarnieri (University of Padua, Padua, italy)
A glance at early hydropower [#7570]

S8A2C – Radar History

Friday 8 September – 16:10 – 17:50 Giotto room
Session Chairs:  Alfonso Farina (Leonardo S.p.A. Consultant, Rome, Italy)
Wolfgang Koch (Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany)

16:10-16:30   Alfonso Farina¹ and Luca Timmoneri² (¹Leonardo S.p.A. Consultant, Rome, Italy; ²Leonardo spa, Rome, Italy)
Adaptivity for radar signal processing: when research and business development join in a successful story [#945]

16:30-16:50    Gaspare Galati (Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy and CNIT National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications Rome, Italy)
Guglielmo Marconi and the Origin of Radar:  Needed Clarifications [#4939]

16:50-17:10    Filippo Giannetti (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
The record-setting Marconian radio station in Coltano, Italy [#6753]

17:10-17:30    Wolfgang Koch (Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany)
On the Early History of Radar Data Fusion and Adaptive Radar Management in Germany [#7110]

17:30-17:50    Federico Scannapieco (Leonardo SpA Nerviano (MI), Italy)
60 Years of Airborne Radar: Leonardo Heritage [#1450]

Saturday 9 September  – Morning

S9M1A – Foundational Research Part I

Saturday 9 September – 9:10 – 10:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politechnic of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Stefano Maddio (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)

09:10-09:30    Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politechnic of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Emilio Gatti: the Life and the Worldwide Heritage  of a Founding Father of Electronics for Physics [#1034]

09:30-09:50    Rao R Morusupalli (HP Inc, Palo Alto, California, USA)
From Early Discoveries to a New Hypothesis: A Brief History of Atomic Magnetism and Magnetic Monopoles [#2754]

09:50-10:10    Ian Robinson (National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK)
The Invention and Development of the Kibble Balance at NPL [#3445]

10:10-10:30    Luca Callegaro (National Metrology Institute of Italy, Turin, Italy)
Giovanni Giorgi and the 2019 revision of the International System of units [#3896]

10:10-10:30    Frank Dittmann and Sasha Disko-Schmidt (Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany)
Electro-Culture: From the fringes to the core and back again [#5123]

S9M1B – Italian academia and Italian industry in the early stages of computers

Saturday 9 September – 9:10 – 10:50 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs:  Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Giacomo Bucci (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)

09:10-09:30    Sergiu-Alexandru Ionescu and Vlad Diaconita (Bucharest University of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania)
Adapting to the Digital Age: An Inclusive Approach to Economic Informatics and Cybernetics Education [#6825]

09:30-09:50    Mark Chen (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Reckoning with the Soroban Abacus in Early Modern and Modern Japan [#7607]

09:50-10:10    Giovanni A. Cignoni (Project HMR, Pisa, Italy)
University of Pisa and Olivetti, 1954-1961: parallel stories of early Italian computers [#9385a]

10:10-10:30    Maurizio Gazzarri (Project HMR, Pisa, Italy)
University of Pisa and Olivetti, 1954-1961: parallel stories of early Italian computers [#9385b]

10:30-10:50        Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Early Years of Computer Science at the University of Padua [#5178]

COFFEE BREAK

S9M2A – Foundational Research Part 2

Saturday 9 September – 11:10 – 12:50 Brunelleschi room
Session Chairs:  Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politechnic of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Stefano Maddio (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)

11:10-11:30    Oleg Morozov, Gennady Morozov and Ilnur Nureev (Kazan National Research Technical University, Kazan, Russia)
From microwave technologies to microwave photonics: R&D Institute of  Applied Electrodynamics, Photonics and Living Systems celebrates 35th anniversary [#5952]

11:30-11:50    Giacomo Giannetti^1,2 and Ludger Klinkenbusch² (¹University of Florence, Florence, Italy; ²Kiel University, Kiel, Germany)
The contributions to electromagnetism achieved by Heinrich Hertz at Kiel University [#6444]

11:50-12:10    Stefano Selleri (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
The reception of Maxwell’s Dynamical Theory in Italy through the pages of Il Nuovo Cimento [#7080]

12:10-12:30    Alexander Nosich (O.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Beginning of Oceanography from Space: Orbital X-Band Side-Looking Radar of Cosmos-1500 [#7507]

12:30-12:50    Marco Fiore and Marina Mongiello (Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
History of Blockchain Technology and its Impact in Social Good [#9723]

S9M2B – Radio and Light Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (from А.S. Popov to nowadays)

Saturday 9 September – 11:10 – 13:30 Ghiberti room
Session Chairs: Vladimir O. Gladyshev (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia)
Innocenzo M. Pinto (retired professor of Electromagnetics, OSA Fellow)

11:10-11:30   Pavel A. Belov (School of Physics and Engineering – ITMO University, Russia)
Studies of Electromagnetic Metamaterials in Russia and Former USSR

11:30-11:50   Aleksei P. Kiselev (St. Petersburg Department of V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Russia), Ekaterina A. Zlobina (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
High-Frequency Grazing Diffraction Theory. From Fock to the Present Day

11:50-12:10   Sergey I. Ivashov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia)
Research, Development and Applications of Subsurface Radars in the USSR and Russia from the 60s to the Present Days

12:10-12:30    Oleg A. Grigoriev, Victoria A. Alekseeva (Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, Russia)
130 Years of Research on Bio-Medical Effects of Electromagnetic Fields: Key Stages for the Development of Scientific Knowledge

12:30-12:50   Valery P. Mitrofanov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
The Role of Vladimir Braginsky in the Development of the Theory and Practice of High-Precision Measurements

12:50-13:10   Sergey P. Vyatchanin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
The Romance of Quantum Measurements

13:10-13:30   Sergey V. Makarov (ITMO University, Russia), Mikhail V. Lapine (University of Technology Sidney, Australia)
Selected Topics in Nanophotonics in Russia and the USSR

S9M3A – Closing Remarks

Saturday 9 September – 13:30 – 13:40 Brunelleschi room

Tiziana Tambosso (IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Commitee Chair)