Stephen P. Atwood

Stephen Atwood is currently Chief Technology Officer with Capstone Visual Product Development & Technologies and serves as a consultant to the display industry. Mr. Atwood has over 20 years of increasing levels of responsibility in the Display industry. He has created key technologies in the field of display optical measurement and managed the development of a number of highly successful display related products. He has successfully participated as Engineering and R&D Director in four start-up companies.

Most recently he was an Engineering Director at Aydin Displays/Three Five Systems where he managed the technology portfolio of the company's platform industrial monitor products. Prior to this, Mr. Atwood was the founder and Chief Technology Office for DisplayCheck, a privately held company specializing in the continuing development of machine vision optical inspection systems for leading edge display technologies including Microdisplays. In his role at DisplayCheck he has helped lead the development of leading edge optics and image recognition technology for high volume production optical characterization of LCOS Microdisplays.

Prior to DCI Mr. Atwood has held senior technical management positions at several display technology companies including Virtual Ink, MicroTouch Systems (now 3M Touch), and Raytheon. While at MicroTouch, Mr. Atwood pioneered development of the first truly interactive electronic whiteboard technology marketed as Ibid and was instrumental in custom engineering touch technology to new display technologies including CRT, LCD, FED and Plasma. At Raytheon, Mr. Atwood developed graphic engine systems, CRT displays, and led research into photo-optical display measurement technology. Mr. Atwood has also written several articles for ID magazine, has published papers in a variety of SID publications, and holds numerous display related patents.

In service to the Society, Mr. Atwood is the Director of the New England chapter, Executive Editor of Information Display magazine, and General Chair of the ADEAC Conference. Mr. Atwood has been active in SID since 1989 when he began serving on the Program Committee for the International Symposium. Shortly thereafter he became the Chair of the New England chapter and continues to organize the local SID activities in New England. In 2004 Mr. Atwood organized and served as Program Chair of the first ADEAC conference. Mr. Atwood was also the MicroDisplay Conference Chair in 2002.

Mr. Atwood received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.