Peter C. Baron

President, ABCD Technology, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southern California College of Optometry
1219 W. Baker, Fullerton CA 92833
Tel: 714 525 2635, Fax: 714 441 1142, email: pbaron@ieee.org

Peter C. Baron joined Hughes Aircraft Company in 1955 after receiving his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Purdue. Except for a six month period, he worked for Hughes till late 1993 when he retired as Senior Scientist. From 1969 till his retirement he coordinated - and directly managed a number - of the Fullerton Ground Systems Group internal displays IR&D programs. Direct responsibilities included projects to develop photgraphic and liquid crystal large screen displays, ultra-high resolution raster displays, ruggedized color shadowmask CRTs, radar scan converters, high speed logarithmic D/A converters, penetration color CRT displays, symbol generators and other state of the art display techniques, components and products for advanced military displays - and coordinating these efforts with other display research and product developments effort within Hughes. Concurrently he was technical director/program manager for a number of advanced technology study and research contracts: for advanced map displays, ultrahigh resolution televisions systems, portable electronic map display and liquid crystal light valve projectors for high-end simulation applications. Earlier he was head of a display system design section, was technical director for the data processing subsystem of the IPD/TAS naval radar program in the contract definition phase, and from 1963-66 was the display system project engineer on the Japanese BADGE air defense system, the first in a line of air defense systems built by Hughes for 90% of the free world. Prior to this he worked on several displays IR&D projects; was a designer of analog circuits for the first shipboard CIC Naval Tactical Data system (NTDS; 1957-60); and worked on test equipment circuitry for the MA-1 airborne fire control system (1955-56).

As head of ABCD Technology, Baron's currently serves as consultant in the field of displays, and has conducted research in field sequential color displays under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA) with two Air Force agencies. Under two industry grants he is conducting further investigations of the psychophysics of field sequential color displays as adjunct assistant professor at the Southern California College of Optometry, in addition to supporting various research efforts in the psychophysics of color displays and telemedicine.

He has been a member of the Society of Information Displays (SID) since its inception in 1963, and has served the organization during the past 18 years at both local and international levels in various capacities. He held various local offices in the Los Angeles, including chairman for three years. He was director for the Los Angeles SID chapter from 1989 to 1992, and again from 1995 to present. He was New Chapter Formation Chair for SID in 1990-92, and served as Vice President for the Americas Region 1992-94. He has been active in his community as scoutmaster, member and president of the Fullerton High School District Education Foundation, a currently active member of the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, a supporter of local schools in a variety of ways (recognized as Educator of the Year by the Chamber in 1983), and as a current director of the Fullerton Sister City Association.