Dr. William P. Bleha received the PhD degree in solid-state physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating he joined the Hughes Aircraft Co Research Labs in Malibu, CA where he was involved in applying the emerging liquid crystal technology to projection display devices and systems. He was awarded the 1986 Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics in London for his role in the invention and development of the Image Light Amplifier (ILA) at the Hughes Aircraft Co. In 1992 he joined Hughes-JVC Technology Corp. which demonstrated the first digital cinema projection. He is now the Senior Research Scientist of the JVC North America R&D Center, ILA Technology Group, in Cypress, California. There he is engaged in the research and development of D-ILAä technology for projection displays.

Dr. Bleha is a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He is the author of over 50 publications and 18 patents. Since 1992 he has made major presentations in the USA, Japan, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, and Russia on digital cinema systems.

Adi Abileah received his B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in 1969, and M.Sc. in Plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1973). In 1980 he became the head of the Electro-optical group at Elbit, Israel, developing avionics displays, infrared sensors, military simulators and other systems. In 1987 he joined OIS - Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). During this period he became an expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed in 1998. In 1998 he joined Planar Systems in Beaverton, Oregon where he is now chief scientist of the Technology Group. His main activity is related to development of AMLCDs, physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights and enhancement techniques. He has 26 US patents, mostly related to displays and backlights. He has presented many papers in the SID (Society of Information Displays) and in the SPIE. He is member of both societies as well as the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the SAE committee for automotive display testing methods.

Gregory P. Crawford received his B.S. in both Physics and Mathematics and a Ph.D. from Kent State University where he performed his doctoral research at the Liquid Crystal Institute and NSF ALCOM Center. He did his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. He was a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and later dpiX, where he concentrated on liquid crystals and polymers materials for flat panel display applications. He is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University where his research interests include liquid crystals, polymers, and their application in display technology. He has over 200 research publications, review articles and book chapters, holds 14 US patents, and is the coeditor of the book entitled Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries formed by Polymer and Porous Networks. Dr. Crawford is the editor of a new book to appear in the Spring 2005 entitled Flexible Flat Panel Displays. Dr. Crawford has recently been elected as the Vice Chair and Chair of the 2005 and 2007 Gordon Conferences on Liquid Crystals, respectively.

Paul S. Drzaic received a B.S. degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford University, where he was an NSF pre-doctoral Fellow. From 1983-1997, he was a pioneer in the development of polymer dispersed liquid crystals, developing several materials formulations for commercial products, and authoring a number of papers describing their fundamental properties. In 1998 he joined E Ink Corporation to lead their display development efforts, where he worked until 2001. He and his team rapidly developed several prototype electronic paper displays, including a display using a commercial a-Si glass active matrix panel, a flexible active matrix display built on a-Si on steel foil, and the world's first flexible active matrix display using organic thin film transistors. He is presently Vice President for Development at Alien Technology Corporation, a startup company developing radio frequency identification tags employing manufacturing technology incorporating self-assembly. Dr. Drzaic has been active in both the international display research community and the materials science research community. He is a recipient of the 2002 Team Innovation award from the American Chemical Society, as well as R&D Magazine's 2001 "Best of the Best" Editor's choice and R&D 100 awards. He is author of the 1995 book Liquid Crystal Dispersions, over thirty technical publications and has thirty eight issued US patents. He is currently the Treasurer of the Society for Information Display.

Hiap L. Ong received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics, and B.Sc. with Honors in Physics from Singapore Nanyang University, in 1978 and 1979 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Brandeis University in 1984. His thesis on liquid crystals surface and electro-optics studies was awarded the first Glenn Brown Award for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in the Field of Liquid Crystals at the 1986 11th International Liquid Crystal Conference.

Dr. Ong has worked over 25 years on LCD surface and electro-optical properties, fast LCDs for color sequential applications, microdisplays, and pioneering work on the wide viewing angle film compensated TN and MVA LCDs. Dr. Ong is currently the Kopin Corporation Chief LCD Technologist, having started working for Kopin in 1995. He has served Kopin as GM Asia Division in 1997 and VP Asia Division in 1998. Previously he has worked for IBM Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in the LCD field, for Taiwan Prime View International as TFT/LCD R&D Director, and for Taiwan Quanta Display Inc as TFT/LCD Product Development Assistant Vice President,

Currently, Dr. Ong is the Editor-in-Chief for the World Scientific Publishing Co. Liquid Crystal Series and Information Display Series and Editor for the International Journal of Modern Physics and Modern Physics Letters. He served as a Taiwan ERSO LCD Technical Advisory Council member, SID LC Program committee member, SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter Chairman, SID'92 Seminar Chairman, SID'93 Awards Chairman, USDC Technical Council Member and Liquid Crystal Technology Project Chairman, and program committee for LC Optics Conferences. He has received four IBM Awards.

Deng-Ke Yang received his B.S. in physics from Tsinghua University in China in 1984 and his Ph. D. in physics from University of Hawaii in 1989. He is now a professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University. His research interest is in liquid crystal physics and displays.

Dr. Yang is a member ot the Society for Information Display, the International Liquid Crystal Society and the American Physical Society. He co-authored the book entitled "Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays" published in 2001. He has over 50 papers in referred journals and proceedings on liquid crystals and 13 issued US patents.

Jay Morreale received his A.A.S. degree in engineering science and his B.S. degree in physics from the City University of New York, majoring in atmospheric science and oceanography, with a minor in electrical engineering. He continued his education at both the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University and NYU's Graduate School of Physics, taking graduate courses in atmospheric fluid dynamics and atmospheric and oceanographic mathematical modeling. In 1974, he joined the American Institute of Physics and became an Assistant to the Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters. In 1976, he joined Palisades Institute for Research Services, Inc., as the senior technical editor/writer for DoD's Advisory Group on Electron Devices.

In 1980, he became involved in the management of several technical and scientific meetings, one of which was the Society for Information Display's annual symposium. He became Managing Editor of the Proceedings of the SID (now the Journal of the SID) in 1981 and of Information Display Magazine in 1990. In addition to these responsibilities, he served as exhibit manager and a conference coordinator for several technical conferences and symposia. He is currently Director of Publications for Palisades Convention Management and SID Symposium Coordinator, a position which he has proudly held for the last 20 consecutive symposia.

Arlie Richard Conner earned music and mathematics degrees from the University of Oregon in 1978 and a masters in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1982. He joined the Display Research Lab at Tektronix in 1985 and worked on various LCD technologies, including STN, pi-cell, FLC and LCLV. During this period he also developed a prototype oscilloscope with a STN display using a limited pattern addressing method.

Mr. Conner left to join a Tektronix-Planar spin-off called InFocus Systems in 1988. While there he invented the subtractive color triple-stacked TSTN construction that gave In Focus the first full-color overhead projection panel and subsequently the first color VGA-resolution projector.

In 1995 he founded Lightware Inc. which developed the first under 10 pound LCD projector, the VP100. The Lightware Scout was the first sub-5 pound projection system to enter the market, and was introduced in 1999.

Mr. Conner now works for Corning Precision Lens and is engaged in the development of LCD, LCOS and DLP rear-projection systems with emphasis on illumination technology.

Dr. George W. Dick received the BaSc degree in mechanical engineering in 1953, and the MaSc and the PhD in 1957 and 1960 respectively in electrical engineering, at the University of Toronto. In 1959 he joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill N.J. and in 1968 began his work with ac plasma display devices and circuits.

Dr. Dick's pioneering work on single-substrate or surface discharge devices was first reported at the 1974 SID symposium. He added the third or data electrode to the structure along with the cell isolating ribs, while at AT&T's Reading PA. facility in the early 1980's. Several hundred pilot production terminals were produced before divestiture and other factors forced the closing of display manufacture at AT&T in 1986. Dr. Dick received the Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Staff Award for the work and was allowed to continue for several months to demonstrate the use and longevity of tri-color panels. The three electrode structure is used in all color plasma display products manufactured today.

From 1987 until 1995 Dr. Dick continued at Bell Labs developing IC,s in GaAs, HFET technology, mostly for cellular phones. A 27 year member of SID, he has published 23 technical papers and received 18 patents.

 Robin Merrifield received the BSEE degree at the University of Arkansas in 1963. He spent most of his 35 year career designing CRT's and LCD's for use in aircraft cockpits. He was part of the North American Rockwell team that developed the first 'glass cockpit' for the F-111 B&D Airborne Integrated Display System (AIDS) in the late 60's. In the late 70's he researched luminance, chromaticity, and convergence characteristics for the first color glass cockpit for the Boeing 767. In the late 80's he was part of the technology team that defined and procured Color LCD's for the Boeing 777.

Mr. Merrifield retired from display systems engineering in 1996 and currently owns and operates a small wood decor business in Mazama, WA

Dr. Louis D. Silverstein is the founder and Chief Scientist of VCD Sciences, Inc., an organization involved in R&D in applied vision, color science and display technology. He is currently involved in applied vision and display research projects at Optiva Inc., Rockwell-Collins, Toppoly Optoelectonics Corporation and Iridigm Display Corporation. He has also served as a research contributor and consultant to numerous major corporations and government laboratories. Prior to founding VCD Sciences, Inc., he was a Senior Research Fellow at Honeywell's Systems and Research Center and a Research Scientist at the Boeing Company.

Dr. Silverstein is a member of numerous technical societies and is a Fellow of the SID. He currently serves on the U.S. National Committee of the C.I.E. and has served an appointment to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Vision. He has been a past program and general chair of the SID International Symposium, has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display and on the editorial board of the journal Human Factors, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Color Research and Application and Displays.

Dr. Silverstein is the author of over 120 journal articles, book chapters, technical papers, and technical reports and has been awarded twenty-five patents on advanced display technology.

Dan J. Schott received the BS degree from Reed College in 1961 and the MS degree from Stanford University in 1964. He is recently retired from his position as Vice President - Research and Development of Three-Five Systems, Inc. In this position, he was responsible for installing and starting, in 1995, the largest LCD production line in North America. His most recent responsibilities included research and development in several major new technologies including Microdisplays and reflective color LCDs.

Prior to joining Three-Five in 1993, Mr. Schott was Associate Director of Honeywell, Inc. where he led Phoenix Technology Center in Phoenix, Arizona. This center was responsible for Honeywell's research in Advanced Displays and Fiber Optic Gyroscopes. Prior to this, he initiated and led the growth of the Sperry Advanced Display Technology Center, a focused research group of national reputation. Previous positions include line and program management, leading several large defense contracts, including the B-52, B-1, and F-16 display programs. Mr. Schott also was a co-founder of a new venture display group for Sperry, where he was Chief Engineer. The venture manufactures gas plasma and liquid crystal displays and was acquired by Beckman Instruments.

Mr. Schott has published many technical articles and has presented papers to the Institute for Electronic Engineers, The Society for Information Displays, and the American Society of Measurement Engineers. He currently holds nine U.S. and several foreign patents in display-related areas.

Dr. Webster E. Howard received his B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in Physics. He joined IBM in 1961 at the T. J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member. At IBM he worked for 12 years in semiconductor physics, including pioneering work on 2-dimensional electron gases in Si inversion layers and on semiconductor superlattices. From 1973-93, he focused on display technology at IBM, managing projects in plasma displays, thin film electroluminescence, CRTs, and thin film transistor/liquid crystal displays. The latter project led to the formation of DTI, the joint venture between IBM and Toshiba. In 1993, he joined AT&T, as a Director in the High Resolution Technologies division of AT&T Global Manufacturing and Engineering. He also served as a consultant to the Display Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories. When AT&T/Lucent Technologies terminated its display activity in 1996, he joined eMagin Corporation, where he led the development of a microdisplay technology based upon organic light emitting diodes on silicon. In 2002 he retired from eMagin as Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Howard is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE, and the Society for Information Display, as well as being a member of Sigma Xi. He is a former President of the Society for Information Display. In 1981, he was a co-recipient of the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, for his work in 2-D electron gases. He is a former member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Dr. William P. Bleha received his Ph.D. in solid-state physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Vice President, Engineering, of the JVC ILA Technology Group in Lake Forest, California. Presently he is involved at JVC in the research and development of D-ILA™ technology for large screen projection displays including applications in digital cinema. His previous work with the Hughes Aircraft Company included: basic research in solid state physics and electro-optics at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu CA; and engineering, manufacturing and product management positions at the Industrial Products Division in Carlsbad CA. He has been involved in developing liquid crystal-based electro-optical spatial light modulators for high resolution displays and optical data processing.

He received the 1986 Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics for his role in the invention and development of the Image Light Amplifier (ILA). He is an author of over 50 publications and 18 patents. In 2002 Dr. Bleha was elected a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

Dr. Shui-Chih Alan Lien received a B.S. in physics from the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1977, a M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1984. From 1984 to 1987, he worked at Ovonic (Optical) Imaging Systems Inc., Troy, Michigan as a scientist, developing large area flat panel active matrix liquid crystal displays driven by amorphous silicon semiconductor devices. In 1987, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is currently a research staff member. His research interests are in the liquid crystal display physics and technology, active matrix organic LED display technology, and display electronics and systems. He contributed to many areas of active matrix liquid crystal display technology, including electro-optical simulation of liquid crystal displays, wide viewing angle technology, display measurement, high resolution TFT/LCD technology, and non-contact liquid crystal alignment technology.

He holds 26 US patents and 13 foreign patents and has authored and co-authored 94 technical papers. He serves as chairman of the Liquid Crystal Technology subcommittee of the SID Symposium. He is also a member of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) and served as a board member of ILCS from 1996 - 2000.

Dr. Eli Peli studied Electrical Engineering (BSEE, 1976 and MSEE, 1978) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He got a Doctorate in Optometry from the New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA (1983). Dr. Peli is a senior scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. He also serves on the faculty of the New England College of Optometry (Adjunct Professor of Optometry and Visual Sciences). Since 1983 he has been caring for visually impaired patients as the director of the Vision Rehabilitation Service at the New England Medical Center Hospitals in Boston. Dr. Peli's principal research interests are image processing in relation to visual function and clinical psychophysics in low vision rehabilitation, image understanding and evaluation of display-vision interaction. He also maintains an interest in oculomotor control and binocular vision. Dr. Peli is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was presented the 2001 Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award by the American Academy of Optometry. Dr. Peli is a consultant to many companies in the ophthalmic instrumentation area and to manufacturers of head mounted displays (HMD). He serves as a consultant on many national committees, advising the National Institute of Health and NASA AOS (Aviation Operations Systems) advisory committee. Dr. Peli has published more than 85 scientific papers and has been awarded 4 US Patents. He also edited a book entitled Visual Models for Target Detection with special emphasis on military applications and most recently coauthored a book entitled Driving with Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving with Low Vision.

Gary K. Starkweather received his B.S. in Physics from Michigan State University in 1960, and a Masters Degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1966.

He has spent over 40 years in the imaging sciences and holds over 44 patents in the fields of imaging, color and hardcopy devices. From 1962 to 1964, he worked for Bausch & Lomb Inc. in Rochester, NY. From 1964 until 1988 he was employed by Xerox Corporation where he became a Senior Research Fellow. In 1971 he transferred to the newly formed Xerox research center in Palo Alto, California. While at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center or PARC, he invented the laser printer. He has received a number of awards for this work. In 1977, Xerox presented him with the Xerox President's Achievement Award. In 1987, he received the Johann Gutenberg Prize from the Society for Information Display and in 1991 he received the David Richardson medal from the Optical Society of America. From March of 1988 until May of 1997, he was employed by Apple Computer as an Apple Fellow involved in Publishing and Color Imaging products and research.

In March of 1994 he received a Technical Academy Award for his consulting work with Lucas-film and Pixar on color film scanning. In November of 2002, he was inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame at COMDEX. Currently, he is part of Microsoft Research as an Architect working on displays and information processing. He has published many papers and has written a book chapter entitled "High Speed Laser Printers" for Academic Press. He continues to serve on several technical committees involved in display and color related imaging issues and has lectured at both Stanford University and UCLA.

Dr. Edward H. Stupp is presently a consultant to the display industry. Previously, he was a department head at Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, responsible for all display-related research and development in that facility. The primary display subjects with which he was involved were mostly projection related, including polysilicon TFTs, active-matrices, liquid-crystal technology, LC and DMD light valves (LVs), and LV and CRT projection systems. The systems activities included architectures, optics, optical integrators, lamps, screens, and electronics. Demonstration full color systems were made with 3-LVs and 1-LV, with resolutions up to HDTV, including 1-LV scrolling-color systems. Other display activities included investigations and demonstrations of electrophoretic information displays (EPID).

He has served as Vice-President for the Americas Region of SID, two times as Chapter Chair of the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter, and is presently Chair of the SID Publications Committee. He is a coauthor of a book entitled Projection Displays, published by John Wiley and Sons as part of the SID Display Series.

Dr. Amal P. Ghosh obtained a Ph.D. degree in Physics from MIT, in 1985. He is currently a Program Manager, Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED) Technology Laboratory, at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY where he is involved with developing new OLED technologies for flat panel display applications. Prior to joining Eastman Kodak Company Dr. Ghosh was Director of Advanced Process Development at eMagin Corporation, where he invented and developed numerous schemes for making OLED flat panel displays. In addition, he was instrumental in developing Laser Interference Lithography techniques for Field Emission Display technology. Prior to joining eMagin Corporation Dr. Ghosh was with IBM Corporation for nearly ten years, both at the T. J. Watson Research Laboratories as well as at the East Fishkill Microelectronics Division. There he contributed in numerous programs involving semiconductor technology and LCD flat panel displays. He has published more than 30 papers and has 9 issued patents and 11 pending.

Dr. Ghosh has been very active in SID where he is currently the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, the Program Chair for the 2003 IDRC and the Seminar Chair for the 2003 Symposium. Dr. Ghosh is a member of the American Physical Society, SPIE and SID.

Paul E. Gulick received a BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently CEO of Clarity Visual Systems, Wilsonville Oregon, a seven year old company committed to revolutionizing visual communications. Mr. Gulick was a co-founder of In Focus Systems, Inc., a world leader in front screen projection systems for business and education applications. He has a wealth of experience in the fields of LCD technology and projection optics, as well as the experience gained from taking a start-up from $0 to $200 million in sales in less than eight years. He has held a number of officer positions at In Focus, including Vice President of Technology, and also served on the In Focus Board of Directors. More recently he was CEO and Chief Technical Officer for Motif, Inc., a joint venture between In Focus Systems, Inc. and Motorola, Inc., and served as Chairman of the Board for Lightware, Inc. Mr. Gulick currently holds 17 US patents in flat panel displays and related technologies.

Dr. Terence J. (Terry) Nelson received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Iowa State University in 1967. He is currently an independent consultant on display and optical-storage technologies.

He worked at Bell Labs from 1961-1963 and from 1969 through 1984 where he attained the rank of "Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff". In 1984 he joined Bellcore where he remained until his retirement in 1997. From 1997 until 2000 he worked at Panasonic Technologies, Inc. During his career, he made contributions to: digital light deflection, mode locking of lasers, magnetic bubble devices, magneto-resistance, ion-implantation, low-voltage phosphors, plasma displays, novel hybrid displays and multimedia communications systems.

Dr. Nelson is a co-inventor of Bellcore's Electronic Panning Camera, which won an R&D 100 award in 1993 and the New Jersey R&D Council's Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 1995. His book on Display Technologies was published by World Scientific Publishers in February, 1997. He is an author on 62 scholarly publications and inventor on 47 U.S. and foreign patents and applications.

Dr. Nelson has been very active in SID, most recently in 1996-97 as Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter. During 1994-96 he served as the SID Vice President for the Americas. He previously served as Director of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter for one year and as SID's Membership Committee Chair for three years. He has also served on the SID Symposium Executive Committee for several years in the Awards, Information, and Seminar positions, and he was Program Chair of SID'94 and General Chair of SID'96.

Dr. Michael D. Wand received his BS in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977, Ph.D. in organic natural products synthesis from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982, followed by post-doctoral studies at the CU Boulder School of Pharmacy in the area of drug metabolic studies. In 1985, he founded the LC chemistry group at Display-tech's inception and currently leads LC R&D there. At Displaytech he has driven the design and synthesis of over 2000 ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds, developing an extensive knowledge of FLC mixing and evaluation. This work resulted in the development of the first FLC mixture used in a consumer product: an FLCD view finder for digital still cameras. Additional accomplishments include creating the world's first commercially available room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture, the first analog DHFLC mixture containing a nematic phase for improved alignment, invent-ing one of only three known classes of bookshelf FLC materials, and inventing a general method for increasing photo stability of LCs by up to five fold.

Dr. Wand has actively participated in the liquid crystal and display communities in organizing committees. This includes Chair and Co-chair positions with SID, and SPIE since 1990, as well as giving many talks and tutorials on LC materials and FLC displays at meetings such as the International Liquid Crystal Conference, and the International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.

He is an author on 62 scholarly publications and inventor on 47 U.S. and foreign patents and applications

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