Awards Banquet
The Awards Banquet, which honors the SID international
award winners, will take place at 8 p.m. on Monday, May 21st at
the Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel in the Beacon B Ballroom. Tickets
cost $40 and must be purchased in advance-they will not be
available on site.
Jan Rajchman Prize
Shigeo Mikoshiba
For his outstanding contributions to the technology of plasma
display panels (PDPs) and liquid-crystal-display (LCD) backlights,
including clarification of motional artifacts of images, and for
his many years of leadership in the display community.
Johann Gutenberg Prize
Dr. Jeff Folkins
For substantial contributions to electrophotography and his
more recent innovations in solid-ink-jet printing
Lewis and Beatrice Winner
Award
Dr. Andras Lakatos
For his many years of outstanding service to the Society as a
member of the Executive Committee, President, and now Editor of
the Journal of the SID.
Slottow Owaki Prize
Dr. J. William Doane
For his outstanding contributions to education in the field of
information display through his direction of 24 Ph.D. students in
the area of liquid crystals, and as the former director of the
Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University.
Otto Schade Prize
Dr. Andrew B. Watson
For his many contributions to vision science and the computational
modeling of the visual process, including applications to display
and image-quality metrics and image compression.
Special Recognition Awards
In-Jae Chung
For his contributions to the display industry and the Society with
advanced technologies for the higher performance of LCD
applications and future displays.
John A. Rupp
For his initiative and effort over a multi-year period at both
Boeing and Honeywell to develop color twisted-nematic
active-matrix (AM) LCD technology with a +/- 60-degree horizontal
viewing angle for the Boeing 777 airplane.
Koichi Sakita
For his development of driving theory using Vt close curve for
three-electrode plasma displays.
Dr. Marko M. Slusarczuk
For creating and leading the pioneering DARPA program for
flat-panel displays, which funded wide-ranging
research-and-development milestones in multiple technologies in
numerous companies.
Dr. Kalil Kalantar
For his outstanding contribution of introducing a novel
optical design method for the light guides used in LCD backlights.
Dr. Takatoshi Tsujimura &
Dr. Walter Riess
For their leading contributions to the design of top-emitting,
large-area, active-matrix, organic light-emitting displays (OLEDs)
driven by amorphous-silicon thin-film transistors.
Dr. Sang Soo Kim
For his leadership in the development of super-patterned,
vertically aligned (S-PVA) LCD technology with integrated
amorphous-silicon row drivers for LCD applications.
Fellows of the SID
Michael Hack
For his many contributions to the science and technology of
flat-panel displays including simulation and modeling of thin-film
transistors and the development of liquid-crystal and OLED
displays.
Dr. Kenji Okamoto
For his outstanding leadership and contributions to develop
Multi-domain Vertical Alignment (MVA) LCDs for large-size monitors and
LCD TVs.
Dr. Kalluri Sarma
For his many contributions to AMLCD designs and development
for avionics displays, including wide viewing angles and extreme
environmental conditions.
Yoshifumi Shimodaira
For his outstanding contribution to the research and
development on improvement of picture quality for display systems
and to the activity of SID.
Deng-Ke Yang
For his significant scientific and technological contributions
to bistable reflective cholesteric devices and outstanding
contributions to publication and education in LCDs.
Professor Myung Hwan Oh
For his contributions to white-light, inorganic,
electro-luminescent backlights for cell phones and his leadership
in the advancement of the Korean display industry.
For a full listing of previous
winners of any of these awards, please visit www.sid.org/awards/indawards.html.
