section_path: History/Birth of the SI
section_name: Birth of the SI
paragraph_text: Birth of the SI
  
  The 10th CGPM in 1954 resolved to create an international system of units andin 1960, the 11th CGPM adopted the International System of Units, abbreviated SI from the French name Le Système international d'unités, which included a specification for units of measurement.
  
  The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has described SI as "the modern form of metric system". In 1971 the mole became the seventh base unit of the SI.