The Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the SID is pleased to announce that Dr. John Troxell is the recipient of the 2005 Chapter Service Award. The award was presented to John during the 13th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, held in Dearborn, Michigan in October and consisted of a $500 monetary gift and a commemorative plaque for the many years of service John has given the Chapter. In 1987, John was one of the founding members of the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the SID.

This year's Chapter Service Award was presented to Dr. Munisamy Anandan by Dr. Larry Weber, SID President-Elect, during the SID Mid-Atlantic chapter meeting on May 11. Dr. Anandan is currently President and CTO of Organic Lighting Technology LLC. He served as the Chair of Mid-Atlantic Chapter twice and also as the Director of the MA chapter from 2000-2002. During his long involvement in the Mid-Atlantic chapter, he inspired other members to participate in chapter meetings and also helped regularly in arranging chapter meetings. By considering his services to the SID Mid-Atlantic chapter as well as SID, the Awards committee of the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter recommended Dr. Anandan for this year’s Chapter Service Award. During this meeting, Dr. Anand gave a talk on “OLED Backlight for Full-color Cell Phone LCD”.

Dr. Vincent Cannella is one of the founding members of the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter and has supported the chapter in many ways over those seventeen years. He served in many Chapter Executive Committee duties and was the originator of the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter’s Scholarship Award Program. He is Treasurer of the Chapter (and has been for a number of years), was on the Chapter Symposia Paper and Program Review Committees and served as a Session Chair in a number of Chapter Symposia. In the early days of our Chapter Symposia, he worked with the University of Michigan and the Center of Display Technology in support of Chapter activities.

During the General Meeting on October 21, 2004, the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the SID presented Dr. Vincent Cannella of ECD Ovonics, the Chapter’s “2004 Chapter Services Award” for the services he performed for the Chapter over the last 17 years. Dr. Cannella received his PhD from Fordham University in New York and did Post Doctoral Studies at Wayne State in Detroit. Besides his work at ECD, he also spent a number of years at OIS directing the manufacture of LCD displays and helped to lead and support many SID meetings at that facility in Plymouth, Michigan.

It was a pleasure to present Richard Fink the Chapter Service Award of the Texas Chapter of the SID at a TX Chapter event on January 20, 2003, in Austin, TX. The award was given in recognition for outstanding service as President of the Texas Chapter and as organizer of the chapter Nanotechnology Colloquia series that takes place via video conference link between Dallas, Austin and Houston every other Monday. Dr. Fink has also contributed to organizing and serving as editor of the TX Chapter IP Symposium for the last four years. I hope all members join me in congratulating Richard on this achievement and encourage him to continue his contributions to the SID. 

Larry Hornbeck

Technical Achievement Award

Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments, the inventor of the digital micromirror device (DMD) chip, was presented the Texas Chapter Technical Achievement Award on Monday, November 17, 2003, in Austin, TX, at a special Chapter event held in cooperation with the Nanoparticles Applications Center of Texas State University in San Marcos. This event, including the presentation given by Dr. Hornbeck, was video linked to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio using the facilities provided by the law firm of Winstead Sechrest and Minick P.C. In total, about 100 people attended this event in all 4 cities. 

At the beginning of the 21st century, cinema and television continue to rely upon fundamentally distinct exhibition technologies having their origins in 19th century inventions. Now, cinema and television exhibition technologies are beginning to converge to the same digital solution - Digital Light Processing™ projection display technology pioneered and commercialized at Texas Instruments. DLP™ projection systems are becoming increasingly popular for home entertainment, and in fact big-screen tabletop TVs based on DLP™ technology are now sold in more than 2,000 U.S. retail stores with sales comparable to plasma displays. DLP Cinema™ technology is emerging as the choice for digital cinema worldwide with more than 100,000 shows of major first-run movies to an audience of more than 10 million. At the heart of these projection systems is the digital micromirror device or DMD chip, a MEMS-based technology integrated with CMOS circuitry.

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