The Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) was a professional organization for radio engineers. It was originally established in 1925 as the Institute of Wireless Technology. It renamed itself British Institution of Radio Engineers in 1941, and eventually Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers. In 1988, it merged with the

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(IEE), and in another merger in 2006 became the

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(IET). It had an Indian division based in

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Activities

The main aim of the Institution was the advancement of the practice of

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, through conferences, meetings, and training. The Institution published the ''Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers'' between 1939 and 1962. From 1963–64, it published the ''Proceedings of the British Institution of Radio Engineers''.Radio Engineers, Proceedings of the British Institution of

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. The Institution awarded the Clerk Maxwell Prize. As the British Institution of Radio Engineers, it established the

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in 1959 as an annual

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"for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers".

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