Measuring History in the I&M Society

In the 1960s the Instrumentation and Measurement Society was a moribund group primarily devoted to publishing papers. In the late sixties and early seventies, several members transformed the society through a number of actions including hiring an administrator and adding the annual IMTC conference. In the 1980s the society started a newsletter, which became the magazine in 1998. The Instrumentation and Measurement Society has been responsible for developing a number of widely used IEEE standards. Along the way, many events etched their way in our memories, such as the murder of the editor of the transactions in the early eighties and the conference that balanced its income with its expenses to the penny.